Bitcoin is on everyone's lips this week and the price has gone nuts — shooting past $17,000 per bitcoin in Thursday's trading. It has rocketed up $5,000 in less than a week, prompting wall-to-wall news

Speculation media have started cautioning of a "genuinely emotional dunk in Bitcoin's esteem" should a hard fork happen. In a piece to perusers on Monday, Riches Every day cautions that Bitcoin