I heard that the increase in the price of bitcoin was the result of the IEO event on several large exchanges, not knowing whether this was true or not. but I hope this is true, and hopefully there will be more IEO events, so that the price of bitcoin continues to rise.
I think we've been out of the bear market after btv started going steady at 3.6 to 3.9k but that doesn't mean the bulls are here. There will be events and news that will cause the price to either pump or correct itself but it's probably not going to start a sustained trend. A good start would be to stay above 5k levels. If we can do that this second quarter, then we may have a chance of getting to 9 or 10k by years end.