So, as many are well aware, Bitcoin saw a huge rise in 2017, peaking over $20,000 in some regions;
Of course, it would be tremendous to see those kinds of gains again in 2018, but with regulatory pressure coming down hard, bitcoin has in more difficult waters than ever before.
With segwit acceptance increasing, and the advent of the lightning network likely by year end, how does bitcointalk think
BTC will perform this year, and why?

At this time its really not the right time to predict on what not will the year run and how smooth or rough its going to be but one thing is sure either route is not going to be easy because we have had a poor start in my own opinion and everything happening does not suggest that might likely change because the market is just dull generally but all we can do is to wait for the market to lick up itself. When that happen, the likely possible outcome can be known.