At first I want to say: Read my post carefully and don't spam.
We all wanted high price, higher than 1000$ and got it, we got even 19k and there people were hoping more than 20K, they think like it's infinitive.
Did so high price do a good job? No, higher satoshi/byte fees became even higher in value because of price rise, some exchangers closed registration and etc. In reality there was no need of 19k but I think currently it's best to see price between 5000-8000$. There isn't so much demand.
You want high price to get much from holding? Seems you hang on bitcoin and are only selfish.
The best thing about the high price of bitcoins is the profit so try to invest right now while the market value is still low in order to earn a huge amount of profit when the price of bitcoins in the market will surpass $19k.
One notable point here is that people are so keen on the profit and they totally forget the main idea behind what makes bitcoin tick and this has turned bitcoin more into a speculative asset that a currency.
Well, we can always have it both ways and it seems from the look of things, with the value not increasing, we may not have actually gotten a lot of recognition as this, so we cannot say it has not in any way helped, but I would personally prefer bitcoin to be more perceived as a currency than just an asset.
The problem is that nobody is interested in a currency with less utility than the USD, which is what Bitcoin ultimately is as a currency. In the beginning, there was a very small group of people who wanted Bitcoin to be a currency for idealistic reasons, kind of in the mold of Satoshi because they view fiat currency as too manipulable. That's a niche group of a niche group, and was never going to be enough to actually make any sort of impact. The only reason Bitcoin specifically (and crypto generally) spread beyond this idealistic group is that some people made easy money in the beginning. When you could spend $10 and pick up hundreds of bitcoins, the price only needed to fluctuate a fraction of a penny for you to flip it and make a profit. This snowballed over time so that the new people coming in were drawn in by the speculation and the gambling far quicker than people drawn to the idea of a useful currency. The more people who came though, the higher the price and the bigger the price swings, and over time speculators built a bubble that drew in more and more speculators. Then the lambo crowd was born, and when stories of lambos and millions to be made got out, the media started to get in on the hype, drawing more attention to Bitcoin. But the thing that didn't change with all the new attention is who was being drawn in, and it was always speculators drawn to the gamble or get-rich-quick dreamers desperate to find an easy score. That's where we are today, a bubble that couldn't sustain itself and now sits at less than half of what it topped out at. But all the people left are still speculators, and all the people who will come in the future will be speculators. Bitcoin will probably never be a currency because the only thing it's known for by the vast majority of people is as a speculative asset. This, I think, is irreversible at this point.