Title: Taking a look below at price, you can see that 1 bitcoin is worth around $4400 US dollars.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;price&#x2F;<p>I remember a time when they were giving out free bitcoin at hackathons and conferences etc.<p>For a casual outsider and a passive market speculator, whats going on with bitcoin and maybe the rest of cryptocurrencies, what are they seeing that we can&#x27;t?<p>And any clues as to whats with the recent surge in East Asian interest of bitcoin?<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coindesk.com&#x2F;annyeong-bitcoin-south-korea-canada-changing-crypto-market&#x2F;<p>Note that I&#x27;ve tried googling but a lot of the urls are before May 2017 and are trying to explain about Bitcoin&#x27;s peak at ~$2000 which is not helpful much.
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