Bitcoin has pass through many stage, limitations, attack and forks issue but its price keep on increasing from inception till now. At this time Last year bitcoin price was $450 but today it is $1245 that was over 180% increment in just a year. This is what we call blessing, that is making progress in the face of strong opposition!!
It is true that bitcoin experienced ups and downs but still managed to increase its price for about 1000% since its first developed. We know that all other cryptocurrencies have also capabilities to grow more and develop but bitcoin is the most famous and more profitable cryptocurrency thats why more people are using it and investing to it because they know that bitcoin's price will continue to increase and they can gain a huge amount of profit to it.