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One Year Ago Today: Bitcoin Reaches All-Time High

Tony Spilotro by Tony Spilotro
2 years ago
in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency news
Reading Time: 3min read
One Year Ago Today: Bitcoin Reaches All-Time High
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Last year on this day, Bitcoin reached its all-time high price of $20,000 – before its parabolic advance was broken, sending the original cryptocurrency into a bear market.

As Bitcoin reaches new one-year lows, the first ever cryptocurrency’s previous all-time high is starting to feel like a distant memory.

December 17, 2017: Bitcoin Reaches All-Time High

Since its creation, investing in Bitcoin has been one long rollercoaster ride that typically results in significant gains for those that can hold the original cryptocurrency designed by Satoshi Nakamoto for long enough.

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After the Mt. Gox hack and subsequent insolvency, Bitcoin was stuck in an arduous, two-year-long bear market that left many investors and traders scorn. Worse yet, many believed that the cryptocurrency was doomed forever and would be known as nothing more than a failed technology experiment that never quite lived up to its potential.

However, in early 2017 things started to change. In February, BTC’s price surpassed its previous all-time high of $1,149 (according to CoinMarketCap data), and started a steady climb upwards and showed no signs of slowing down.

Related Reading | Novogratz: Bitcoin to Revisit All-Time High in 2019

Throughout the year, Bitcoin rebounded strongly from a number of corrective crashes, but continued its ascent in price steadily. It wasn’t until October when Bitcoin first broke $5,000 when the mainstream media began buzzing about the previously unheard of financial technology. Stories began to circulate of investors that struck it rich by buying new asset at far lower prices, which sparked a wave of greed across the globe.

Within a month, Bitcoin had nearly doubled in value, and was the talk of many family dinner tables during Thanksgiving. Following the holiday, the cryptocurrency’s price went fully parabolic, smashing through $10,000. Not even three weeks later, as hype over Bitcoin Futures took hold over the market, BTC doubled in value yet again, reaching its all-time high price of $20,000 on December 17, 2017.

December 17, 2018: One Year Later

Today, the leading cryptocurrency by market cap is trading at $3,400 and investors are currently celebrating the new price level as part of a relief rally, following twelve full months of price decline that culminated in Bitcoin painting a fresh yearly low of $3,125.

Related Reading | BTC Back at 2018 Low, Price Halved in A Month

After Bitcoin’s parabolic advance was broken, a massive correction down to $5,800 occurred in February, but quickly rebounded over $10,000. That rally failed, as did three additional rallies that all ended in progressively lower peaks, forming a descending triangle – a bearish structure with a high probability of further price breakdown.

As the massive descending triangle reached its apex, the cryptocurrency fell through the repeatedly tested price floor at $6,000 that had been acting as seemingly unbreakable support, sending its price plummeting another 40%. Bitcoin has now lost over 80% of its value from its all-time high last year.

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Tony Spilotro

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I'm Tony Spilotro. Behind the pseudonym, I'm a digital media executive and global remote work leader with a decade of content experience and excellent. Here, I explore my newfound passions pertaining to privacy, finance, economics, politics, cryptography, property rights, and other libertarian-esque views. I am a Bitcoin evangelist, maximalist, and educator whenever I can be, helping to spread its message of freedom from government control, monetary policy mismanagement, and passing the buck - literally – to future generations. My journey from a curious retail crypto investor to a serious Bitcoin advocate, trader, and technical analyst is an unusual one, but life-changing nonetheless and has become less about money and more about a long-overdue revolution. While a firm believer in the laws governing math and science, I am profoundly fascinated by the impact of astrology and astronomy including moon and solar cycles and planetary alignment and their ability to influence and potentially predict markets. It hasn't yet clicked for me as to how to put anything to use, but I consider it my current rabbit hole I can't yet dig out of. My perspective of growing up alongside the internet, the dot com era, the Great Recession, and roots in video games collecting coins and rare items caused Bitcoin to immediately make sense to me. Through all of these lenses, I seek to produce content that is educational and entertaining, and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read what I have to say. Please follow me on Twitter and feel free to drop me a line if you would like to work together.

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