In this year January btc price was $800 $1,150 and now it is around $7100.Can we imagine it will increase like this year?
I don't think so but people are hyping about the bitcoin futures trade. They are all not knowing what they are talking about. The wallstreet was full with a lot of the high profiles with unlimited money.
We will see about what will be happening in the future. this time a lot of people are knowing about that was a very good step to the bitcoin to be the mainstream speculation trade. and not a massive payment adoption.
We really have to just keep waiting to see what would happen in the next future with bitcoin. Like you said, we have had some pretty big speculations coming up with the wall street stepping in and some big merchants adopting it which of course would mean a lot for the usage of digital currencies.
Moreover, so many developments would also come up at long run that would make payment adoption to become massive and then people can start using it as a real life payment means which I am so optimistic about.