2017 began as a bullish year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on the market. I remember when BTC went from $1k to almost $20k in just 2017 alone. That's a massive price increase never before seen in the history of crypto.
Before talking about the golden year, 2017 (just call it as a golden year for now, in this thread, and it could be wrong to call it like that). Let's talk about one year before 2017, the year 2016. 2016 plays its role as a warming-up year for crypto market that help the market skyrocketed in 2017.
Why do I would prefer to mention about 2016? Yes, we have been being in 2020 and I think its role as same as 2016. It is obviously that I am expecting to see the year 2021 as nearly same as 2017.
During that time, new projects started to rise with ambitions to make our world a better place. ICOs where a big hit, followed by Bitcoin-based forks like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold. Many who invested prior to the bull market of 2017, have made exponential gains in a short amount of time. It was crypto's best moment as it went into the mainstream so quickly.
It is exactly what we have been witnessing now, isn't it? The DeFi trend wakes up many dead projects. They swapped from dead algorithms to ERC20 and other lively chains, just to join the DeFi party. Newborn projects are created every day. It is a scam wave.
Despite of such facts from the scam wave, from greedy scammers, I see positive things from 2020, as a preparation for a better market in 2021.