Now that there is less hype about china controlling bitcoinI think 2017 will be the year we see an all time high as we have more people than ever getting on board and probably have more countries endorse the use of it as political grounds crash down and will be crawling to bitcoin for redemption.
Till now the Chinese had a major influence in the price of bitcoin and when ever the price is crossing the thousand dollar barrier the Chinese would pull the price down and this was the usual scenario till now and hope the situation changes with time as we are seeing Japan over coming the price the Chinese market in terms of trading volume.