When Bitcoin approaced 17K, I sold quite a bit and bought LiteCoin at $100/coin.
What makes LiteCoin such a good investment now... It is offered on CoinBase and many people do not even have PC and want in on the action.
Finally there is a crypto exchange that makes it very easy for somebody with just a $30 dollar android and debit card with only $100 in their account. LiteCoin is much more affordable to a newbie who just signs up on CoinBase.
So many think BitCoin/Cryptos is a bubble and will totally crash and probably not a good investment. But I believe BitCoin is only a solution to reckless monetary policy by central banks around the world. They have printed so many trillion dollars ever since President Nixon took the USA off the Gold Standard. Every currency in history, that is fiat (not backed by gold/silver) has failed. All fiat currencies from the begging of time have been printed to oblivion. Just about every currency in this world is tied to the US Dollar, thus they are fiat currencies as well.
Another reason why crypto's are doing so well is because Interest Rates have been artificially suppressed by central banks to stimulate economic growth and inflation... and it is NOT working. Ever since the 2008/2009 Great Recession, There is no such thing as Interest on your savings. Just go ask anyone over 30 years old... Do you remember a time when you could get 6 percent interest on your savings or money market account? And they will respond 'YES". Then ask them why is there no more interest on savings... and most of them will say.. "I dont know". But the fact is they should know and understand why. I remember back in 2006 i had some great moneymarket/Certificate Deposits (CD) domains and would get $10/click on domain parking.
Central Banks use Interest Rates to control inflation/deflation. They called it money expansion or money tightening. When prices start to rise fast, like in the late 1970's... The central banks raised interest rates so people start saving and not spending. This slows the velocity of money and gets control of rapid inflation. When nobody is spending prices go down and that is called deflation. The only problem with high interest rates will crash the economy and stock market. Nobody can afford a loan and so many people lose their jobs. So lets just keep interest rates near zero forever. Not such a good idea because it creates inflation.
In 1980, Paul Volker the head of the US Federal Reserve, raised interest rates to 24 percent. to control inflation. Back then the USA was only 300 billion in debt and could afford to pay the 24 percent interest. Now, the combined bank derivatives of the US Fed/ECB/BOJ/ is over 200 trillion. It is unsustainable.
Today the US government is over 21 trillion dollars in debt. No way in hell will Central Banks be able to control inflation when it gets a grip on the economy. They would never be able to pay the interest on such a huge debt (if raised to control inflation) and would cause hyperinflation like Venezuela. When inflation starts and rises fast it is not like you can put the Genie back in the bottle.
Gold and Silver should have been rising like Crypto's over last few years but the Central Banks have found a way to suppress them by naked shorting GLD/SLV Exhange Traded Funds on the Chicago Mercantile Commodities Exchange. The Federal Reserve gives the Bullion Banks unlimited funds to sell the paper stock of Gold/Silver to drive the price down and they they cover their short contracts on the futures market. It is a rigged market and the CFTC (who governs fair trading or ETF's) just looks the other way to keep the US dollar propped up.
The CME is now trading Future Contracts on Bitcoin (for last week) and has not affected the price. Uut until they can start at ETF, it would be impossible to suppress the price of BitCoin. The Federal Reserve would have to own millions of bitcoins to be able to suppress the price and even if they did... it would be to expensive. I often thought maybe this is why price of BitCoin keeps going up so fast because Central Banks are trying to get a large position to manipulate it later... .which makes me like liteCoin ever more.
My advice to all domainers... your better off just buying LiteCoin that just investing in crypto domains. It is much more affordable. Will probably get 10 X your investment in next year.