Mining cost of one Bitcoin is $5,000 or more. When Bitcoin was $400 or $800 it was understandable because people had to just spend $400 or $800 to get one Bitcoin and $1,200 is super high profits when Bitcoin started from $1.
Bitcoin was like that, every year the bitcoin was pump because when you check the chart every year then you compare it to every year, you can see that it pump and the holders get some profit.
Bitcoin was different from gold or silver because the bitcoin was easily to dump and also pump and it is good for some person who have some knowledge about bitcoin because you can get more profit using trading.