Culture Shock: Bitcoin a Part of All Walks of Life in 2017

2017 will go down as the biggest year in Bitcoin’s history – with meteoric highs paving the way for the preeminent cryptocurrency bursting into mainstream consciousness.

December will forever be remembered for Bitcoin’s massive price correction after hitting the $20,000 milestone, but a lot happened in the lead up to the climactic end of the year.

Rewind to January 2017. Bitcoin had just broken through the $1,000 barrier and the talk among crypto enthusiasts was that the virtual currency was set for a bullish year. It’s fair to say that no one anticipated an eventual 2,000 percent growth before the market correction, but the statistics will tell a different story.

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A quick glance at Google Trend’s analytic graph shows that interest in Bitcoin had a small peak in May, while it really started to garner interest worldwide around the time that SegWit2x was postponed and the Bitcoin bull run began.