Let us recap 2017
- BTC start with a good start surpassing gold price and went up to $20k (from $1k USD to $20k) - btw i am did not mention how BTC roller coaster here yet..
- Not 1, Not 2, But 3 BTC Hardfork but the third got cancelled (i am only counting the big one Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold)
- Ethereum touch ATH again and again, barelly reaching 1k by the end of 2017
- Many, many, many ICO got launch this year a whopping of $3 billion ($3,700,682,293 to be exact, whereas in 2016 it was barely $100 million ($96,389,917)
- Charlie Lee sold out all his Litecoin Holding
- Total Market Cap from mere $100million 6x just this year to $600+ million by December (As of today we are on track to $1trillion Market Cap)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/03/03/bitcoin-value-surpasses-gold-first-time/
https://www.coinschedule.com/stats.html?year=2017