In every greatness what soever, there is always a point of starting, getting the attention of people (where it was termed to be a bubble that could burst at any time), which where and lot more of things that were not in support of bitcoin success. When the deep came at 2018, there where lots of losses in the market, people left the system and so on. With these all done, the attention of the populace where gotten.
Now, the interest of institutional bodies, and wealthy personnel coming into the system has made the crypto space to gain the popularity it has ever wanted.
Then in 2017, 2018, it was market manipulation done by whales to make and takeout profits, now, investors, mass adoption and popularity of bitcoin is affecting the price growth.