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Do you think that 2017 was the "Golden Year of Crypto"? Or is the best is yet to come? Your input will be greatly appreciated.

We can't say that 2017 is the "Golden Year of Crypto", as we are at the very beginning of the development of crypto. I am sure that there will be many more surprises in the future, which will be associated not only with the price of BTC. but also the appearance of new altcoins that will attract attention.
Yes I agreed, it hard to say that 2017 is the Golden year for Cryptocurrency, there are a lot of bounty hunters and investors earned so much by this year of 2017 we cannot deny that compared for the ICO project campaigns that arise up when 2018 entered even up to now, none of the project campaigns gave a good profit whether you are investors or bounty hunters.
We go to back the time of 2013 when cryptocurrency had a golden time. Over 800 billions was the market of cryptocurrency, compare to 350 billions. Half different of cryptocurrency can't make a golden time.