From CNBC: The digital currency has now more than tripled in value for the year, and gained about 15 percent in the first few days of August.
What investor or trader will not want a piece of that? Over the last 2 years, Bitcoin was the best performing commodity and last year it was the best performing currency. By the looks of this, it might be the best performing commodity and currency again. CNBC has been mostly critical with their articles on Bitcoin and you still see that to the end of this article, but 90% of the article is positive, so that signals a possible change in their attitude?
We still have some major events like "Black Friday" and "Xmas", where there might be an increase in demand for bitcoins.