2017 was still a good year for bitcoin. We started a good year also, with a good exchange rate then comes this BTU or the bitcoin hard fork issue and BTC prices went down. Now, I think BTC has already recovered and still I am optimistic about it.
BTU is no more trending, bitcoin is now stable and those issue are the ones that threaten bitcoin.
I really hope that there will be no more negative news about the split. No one wants a fork. And if it does not, then the price will rise steadily.