@jackmiller, this is a very awesome post with intriguing topic. I upvoted this post and i want to drop my commit by saying that as an crypto curriency trader and owner of a mining farm, i believe that bitcoin is going to reach $27,000 by the end of next year 2018. My reason is because when bitcoin was invented it cost as low as $4 and within a short period of time, bitcoin was able to skyrocket to $6000 and we all know that other curriencies are been evaluated by bitcoin. Bitcoin gave birth to bitcoin cash and looking at the crypto curriency world at the moment, most business enterpreneurs are investing and building marsive bitcoin mining farms. Products, eductional fees, sales, trades, and bills are paid using bitcoin. Other countries are inspired to establish their crypto curriency with bitcoin been the evaluater of their crypto curriency. I want to point out here that bitcoin blockchain functions properly due to the amount of people mining and making use of bitcoin daily so, the chart at this moment shows that a lot of top business are making use of bitcoin and this tends to affect the rise of bitcoin in the upcoming years. Bitcoin is freedom to wealth and extortion implement by the government in the name of financial control in the case of paper curriency. Bitcoin hits billion dollars this week and hardfork has no way to stop bitcoin from falling in price because bitcoin reduce the delay in business transactions, secured, flexible to use and has low cost of transfer fees. It is not controlled by government and bitcoin blockchain has proof of work and been the first coin, it is used for evaluation of any other curriency. This is my opinion. Thanks