Although it was born long ago, but only in 2017 Bitcoin has become a very hot fever around the globe. Bitcoin's value has risen from $ 800 in January to a record $ 20,000 in December. In 2017, the quantity of keyword "Bitcoin" searched increased over 1000%. Thats a really good news for us, bros
I think that effect was seen earlier also. The only thing was that, bitcoin gained the prices like $2- $100, $100-500 and so on. The net effect on the % hike was almost similar to what we are seeing today. However, the economic balance which it gained over the decade is really remarkable and no other currency can bit that thing at all.
Yes, for many people who just started with the BTC at the year 2017 start got lucky to see the great spikes.
But I want to point on one thing here, there were many forks in between and the china fall was one of the event when most of the people failed to hold the bitcoin and sold it at very low prices. Later on people weer scared to actually go on with this process further and thus the popularity was just before that event and not the later one. The later hike was all because of the Futures company investment and forks to be honest.