I wonder when we will see the prices of bitcoin raise above 1k. There has been some negative news about bitcoin influecing the price in the past so 2016 was not the best year.
But hoping for a better year in 2017 where we see high values and then the wait finally pays off.
For now 2016 has imo been a very successful year.Remember last year around that time we had been in the 200s!Now we are in the 600s!That's 3x up my friend!!
Regarding the $1000 we will see them again.It's a question of time that's for sure. It might not happen this year anymore but I'm pretty positive somewhere around 2017 we can reach it again and maybe build a new ATH.
Keep in mind that the core devs are working hard and SegWit + compact blocks is around the corner. Bitfury and Acinq have together made the first steps in terms of lightning routing! Other companies are working on similar or different implementations like Thunder and Falcon for intance. So in terms of technological progress we are moving forward. And that has to be the first step for more and more adoption which will create higher values.
So have a bit patience my friend.For a fully working, secure and decentralized network on a big scale, things have to be done properly!
I am with you all the way, Denker, and you beat me to the punch on some of the matters that you addressed.
Regarding the next ATH, you are correct that it could take sometime to evolve into such and could take place in 2017, yet it could happen at any time.. It is really difficult to know for sure.
Sure at this point, there seems to be various resistance in the $600s and $700s, but at the same time, that resistance can melt away very quickly when certain mile stone announcements are made in terms of the various developments that you outlined that kind of revolve around seg wit technologies.
Also, as you imply, seg wit does not really solve any kind of scaling issues on its own in order to facilitate greater adoption, but it certainly puts wheels in place to allow for more and more developments that could cause a variety of "killer apps", and yeah, the market responds in weird ways and at weird times to attempt to price in these future developments at a time that they become more clearly solidified, but probably before the rest of the folks realize the positive impact of such solidifications.
TLDR: We got a lot of factors in place that are placing considerable upwards price pressures on bitcoin that could cause rapid exponential growth, yet it could also just grow more slowly, too, even though the upwards price pressures seem to be fairly solidly in the mix of our current bitcoin place.