That's true, however mostly success of crypto in 2017 has been related to mainstream media, which really talked a lot about it on daily basis.

Financial media channels have their share in 'promoting' or 'hyping' viewers to buy some coins without an in depth research about what they're buying.

Seriously I never thought about it before. What's your opionion?

For me, even with this A.I. blockchains and companies, we can never really time the market or predict the behavior of market participants but they can mitigate risks of trading and investing if they would be able to deduce patterns or cycles of market data since it has started.