It have reached $19,000 at the last quarter of 2017 and now swinging at $7,000 below.
another way of looking at it is that bitcoin price was less than $1000 at the beginning of 2017 and now it is worth nearly $7000 which is 7 times higher in a little more than a year.
Just recently, Bitcoin have proved wrong the former CEO of Mt. Gox (Mark Karpeles) one of the largest cryptocurrency exchange before, after he stated years ago that "Bitcoin may have trouble in evolving and keeping up". With respect to what Bitcoin has achieve nowadays behind negative articles, negative perceptions it actually proves that Bitcoin is really keeping up and is evolving (and will continue to evolve).
https://www.investopedia.com/news/former-mt-gox-ceo-questions-bitcoins-evolution/articles like this are normal when we are talking about bitcoin. there are a lot of people who don't understand and/or are threatened by bitcoin's existence alone because bitcoin is gaining more popularity and is adopted more as time goes by and that is threatening to them.
it is a revolution that is happening regardless of these naysayers. it is slow sometimes but it is happening.