It will all be resolved in the long run - unfortunately, due to the infancy of the market, any news can have a drastic effect on the overall performance of the market.
That being said, regulations andf sanctions will definitely be imposed in 2018 which may continue to make the market have short term dips - this could be good or bad, I'm undecided at the moment.
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