As far as I know, one of the factors increasing the price of bitcoin -
the demand for it, Europe too has its place, there is not so little people))

Stop standing on your head, price is downwards since fees went silly as you would expect.
Japan is where all the big action is going to be coming from ! Checkout Robots and AI, See M2M or IoT
and then think why someone might had wanted to create CPU wars using Bitcoin