Bitcoin is up the most of the major cryptocurrencies, and this is most likely due to the resurgence of the plan to fork Segwit2x on December 28.
You should go look up and post which 5 retailers are on the list of those accepting bitcoin as per this article.
For some near-term outlook on bitcoin and crypto overall...
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@harpooninvestor/buy-the-dip-not-yet-here-s-why
At the moment, for what I am seeing in a lot of trading telegram chats (including also 3000 members) and big facebook groups over 10k members no one cares about the 2x fork revival. No one speals about it. A lot of its supporters now are investing and working in Bitcoin Cash.
So baically 2x is unuseful - core supporters have segwith bitcoin and big blockers and people who want a Bitcoin without fees have Bitcoin Cash.
There is no place for 2x now.
ok, that's good info. So then what is driving the investment in bitcoin then? At least, on this day which is now in the past?