Over the last 3 months, the price of Bitcoin has more than doubled - from $2,300 to $5,300. Accordingly, the market cap has grown from circa $40 billion to around $93 billion. Bitcoin is up more than 400% this year.
Another important metric to take a look at is the 24h trading volume. Back in July it was around $1 billion, and since then it has quadrupled, and now it is at $4 billion. Hence, with the growing Bitcoin popularity, speculation grows as well (you can obviously see that on the graph below, which represents year-to-date data).
Digital currencies now are stronger than ever. Yet, what it is clear now is that digital currencies are as strong as ever. And their popularity as well as global demand will only likely to grow in the nearest future.
Material is taken from here. Bitcoin will never be Bitcoin without this amazing and superb growth. In fact, it would just be another cryptocurrency or maybe just another investment tool if not for the wild ride that it got into. Maybe the media would not be talking about, celebrities would not be investing on it and even many governments would not decide to ban Bitcoin-related activities had it been just another passing story.
One thing for sure is that Bitcoin is here to stay. The road to massive adoption is not an easy one as there would always be big and small challenges. The year 2017 can be recorded as the most intense year for Bitcoin and there are so many lessons we can all learn. Next year we are hoping for an easier ride and hopefully there would be new markets that can open for cryptocurrency as a whole.
Long live, Bitcoin!