Bitcoin is going to be more popular in 2017 and the number of people is going to be increased to 5 millions as minimum. The necessary laws will be accepted in governments to control bitcoin and it will be appear much more new places that will accept bitcoin as payment. I think this year is going to be the best year in all bitcoin history and I expect the price will reach 2000$ during the year.
Yes and with the population getting more and more digital soon we might see a sudden rise in price of bitcoins.
I have personally educated some 5-6 friends about bitcoins among which 2 are using it just for gambling while others are yet learning and checking how it works.