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Last month, we have read many self-proclaimed Bitcoin analysts and experts proclaiming to the whole world that soon Bitcoin will hit $10,000 by the end of 2017. We have some corrections since then which pulled back Bitcoin a little bit from its $2800 high and right now as I speak it is hovering at the $2500-$2600 level.

Bitcoin is now priced higher than 1oz. of gold and has beaten any other financial instruments in terms of return on investment which result into many money managers noticing Bitcoin and transferring some of their eggs into it.

Do you think Bitcoin will really make it into $10K within this year, most especially after its August One "date with destiny"? 

very imposible if bitcoin price can reach 10k in end year 2017

i like your idea, but it isnt possible, sorry

This all depends on the willingness of the whales, the mining company & Chinese government and investors.

Cryptocurrencies news can be a hype so i often disregard such but bitcoin price rose from $800 to $3000 withing 3 months and could have gotten to $10,000 if that tempo is maintained.

I don't believe it's possible.
Even of more countries will start using Bitcoins as accepted currency,
even if the big whales and the economic world will dive into the bitcoin world,
and even if we will survive the hardfork with no casualties,
even then - it might double its worth and get to $5k maybe $6k,
but $10k is looking like the moon right now.

Bitcoin's volatility is an extreme deterrent to money managers. Money managers look for favorable risk when choosing investments. The risk that comes with crypto versus the potential reward is extremely unfavorable. If they wanted to make high risk trades, they would look to the stock market, where risk is significantly lower and reward is at least as high as bitcoin.

Bitcoin will not hit $10k by 2017. In fact, it will be lower than it is now. The trend seems to be reversing, and bitcoin is continually facing resistance around $2800. It is very overvalued and will start to decline soon. I would bet that by the end of the year, it is at $1500 or lower.

People always make insane predictions like $10k in a few months or $100k in a year. People were making literally these same predictions in 2013.

For the time being I'm not sure bitcoin can be up to 10,000USD in the end of 2017. There needs to be a very big news like regulation about bitcoin. If a stable price like this is probably 4,000USD is the largest nominal bitcoin can achieve. I prefer a steady increase because it can make bitcoin not fall off quickly.

None can't say that it won't happen by the end of the year with 100% assurance, because price increase with bitcoin is simply big and happens anytime​ with accordance to the adoption happening with the bitcoin causing a increased circulation of bitcoin around the network. So, even $10k is possible but right now the speculations were to reach $3500 by the year end.

i think it depend on 1 august just like you says that this is the date of destiny for bitcoin but if bitcoin could through this date with good situations then i would says it is possible to reach $10k by the end of this year

I personally think $10K is not possible for the end of 2017. However, I think $4k is possible.
We just have to wait for 1 August & Segwit2x :)

That is right, having that $10000 bitcoin price is a bit high and it is impossible to reach this year, I think it will not be even reaching  $5000. Even after the network splitting this August, it will just pump little by little, it won't pump straight to where it normally was. Because after this month, there will be investors and users that will be doubting again bitcoin.

For real? This is possible to happen but not will take long for example bitcoin price will hit 10$k by the end of of 2017 for sure it will take 10minutes only because lots of people are gonna sell there bitcoin before the year ends and they need money to celebrate new year and it will back into normal pricing again just for christmas holiday lmao.

I don't believe in such a development. There are no prerequisites for this. Even if the price is above 3000 that's good. Many people dream to get rich thanks to bitcoin and therefore believe in such jumps. I don't believe. Even if there is a stable increase of $ 100 a month that's good.

I can surely say $10k by the end of year is not at all possible. Right now bitcoin have became unpredictable. Lets see what happens on 1st August. Even if everything goes well after August. Still bitcoin can't reach $10k. Something near $4k might be possible.

i think bitcoin will only reach more than $5k this year as you can see there's a lot of methods or what we called process before it increase if you can see to dates bitcoin price graph it is pull down and push up price graph in short it's not stable to pushing the price up it is up and down right now so if you want to have an extra income this year don't convert it yet just stack it on your btc wallet.

I don't think that bitcoin will hit that high price in this year as its too high to expect from short term and I would be really happy even if touches the price of $5k in this year but that also seems to be unrealistic.

I agree with you. It would be very difficult to reach the 10K $ price. Maybe 5K $ is a realistic number, but it all depends on the circumstances and situation in market share bitcoin. The more people who use bitcoin the higher the bitcoin price. It is the law of demand in the world economy.

We can really never tell what is gonna happen up to now, and right now the price is still at $2700 and still resisting in going ahead further up to the $3000 mark value I truly think that many will happen after the August 1 event that all of them are saying and we can really never sure in what movement it can gain if that occur, well $10,000 is a lot in the end of the year and I think people are just saying that and getting to the analyst type they are because of they really want to get the bitcoin price to badly skyrocket that much faster, well we can never tell for now until we are safe to say that the split will not gonna ruin bitcoin.

No one has guessed going from 800 to 3000 in a few months. So, the price may hit 10K $ with a extreme rally. But end of 2017, I don't think so.

I certainly agree with you guys it won't be possible if things remain the way they are at the moment but should we receive good news come August we should see a soar in price and probably hover around the 5k dollar range with ease and  who knows maybe $10k could be reality with bitcoins unpredictability

If ever bitcoin reaches 10k this year, it is just a bubble and will burst as soon as it touch 10000.  It is better if the price move slowly up with good support. This way,the price will be maintained and newbies who just entered in the high price will not be ripped because the price will not crash easily.

Will arrive safely at $ 10,000 but I do not know if in 2017, probably between the next 5 years, but now I think it will cut any subite is infinite.

I feel 10k Is still very very far away. I would not bet any money on that figure. At best we may see a price close to 3500/4000 dollar. Which would mean bitcoin's price went x4 in just 1 year. A tremendous growth and even unparalleled.

I think that's much more appropriate. Stable price increases will make bitcoin an important commodity. While when bubbles occur then bitcoin prices may experience a significant decrease in a short time. Everyone expects prices to continue rising and steady.

I don't really think that it could hit that high in this year,
Maybe about 4,000-4,500$ I think but 10,000$ in the end of the year is too much but maybe it could if a miracle happens.

With my own speculation its impossible that the price can be hit $10k before end of this year.. as i can seen other traders are just following trends if you notice of price drop other traders are investing to other altcoin now we seen price increase it means there are some altcoin are halving issue like ethereum. But in the news that we heard about segwit activation this coming august we will see if there are some advantage after the changes..
For now possible price that i think can be touch i think around $2,900- $3,500 this is more possible than $10k..

If devs and miners manage to finish the year with Bitcoin+SegWit in a single chain, I think that is possible.

No. I even find it pointless to focus on something that at this point wouldn't even make sense with SegWit fully activated and functional. I don't pay attention to people that keep throwing around blindly with figures without actually knowing what is needed to even get the price to maintain its position at current levels. Let's just focus on moving forward step by step, instead of skipping a huge part to directly end up at $10k levels....

I would be thrilled if on Dec 31 at 1159 pm we were at 3k. This would mark a 200 percent rise since last year at the same time.

The August-November will be a "hard time" for bitcoin because many things are expected to happen and I'm afraid bitcoin price will be affected a lot by this, don't know I expect a price drop of bitcoin but maybe also lower transaction fees. So I don't expect for this year the price to be in 5 digits, that's too high but everything can happen, if that would be reached I wouldn't be surprised, it's that I just didn't expected.

Who knows? It can happen or it can't be. Last year we saw the price of bitcoin reached $1k and before the 1st quarter of this year ends, we saw the price at $2k above. Still don't have what will exactly is going to happen after this August 1. I'm also waiting for the positive result of Australia's declaration of bitcoin's legality.

It is possible, but it's not very probable.

I will say bitcoin might hit $10k only after 2018 or by end of 2018. I think $5k by end of 2017 will be a reasonable prediction, we can't expect bitcoin to make a $7k jump within remaining 6 month period.  ;)

If it was the case then all we have to do is to buy as many Bitcoins as possible and just wait 6 months for the value not to double but actually increases 5 times over? isn't that a bit absurd speculation even for my levels, I tend to believe Bitcoin price has the proven potential to have an increase in value by 100% every 6 months but 500% is more like the shitcoins being manipulated by some company/organization etc.

It will hit but not before 2018 ;) Just buy and hold for "holy bump"..

Not sure on what basis the experts are speculating such a steep rise within a span of just six months.
Going by the average statistics, the price chart rising ups and downs for the last few years, it is very unlikely that Bitcoin price will be anywhere near 10K in the current year.

It is not that I am pessimist about Bitcoin price trend, it is that thinking bitcoin reaching 10k usd at the end of the year is somehow a wishful thinking.  I do believe that bitcoin will eventually get there but i think it won't be this early.  I can see from my observation that bitcoin can possibly reach 5k USD due to the adoption and the possible implementation of Segwit on August 1.  If it is successful it will rally in price but I do not think it will reach 10k USD at the end of 2017.

Thoughts are mere expressions of opinion without any objective basis. I feel if everything goes according to the trend being witnessed now, I see us going above the $3000 mark or even going beyond that $5000 before the end of the year but concerns will now be reaching $10000 which I am not forseeing it happening anytime soon not before the end of 2017.

$10k is out of the picture this year I think. The rise would be too fast, and I don't want a massive crash. $5000 on the other hand, is possible if Bitmain stops screwing around everyone with their market manipulation.

Now that we are getting segwit, we just need to guarantee no hardfork will happen to not see the price collapsing again. If we are able to do that, then it's very possible to hit $5000, if we get hardfork drama.. forget it.

Maybe the bitcoin price will only hold maximum at 5000USD. Although there will be segwit, I am sure that bitcoin will not increase that far.

I do not see bitcoin to reach 10K in 2017, and not in 2018 as well.
Those numbers are just too high.
After that, who knows.
For the moment I expect the price to be volatile between 2300$ and 3000$.
I suppose it will swing between those levels for a few months now.

Its definitely possible, though 2018 is likely and 2020 is a guarantee.

I don't think bitcoin could reach $10K by the end of 2017, what kind of bitcoin analysts and experts proclaimed​? Link?
The best price for bitcoin after segwit activated maybe around $5000-$6000, after fluctuate and some corrections occurred at the highest price. Bitcoin cycle always going like that, but we will see higher floor than just $2500 obviously.

It will be crazy prediction but bitcoin market is already doing some crazy moves, so yes it can hit $10k or even more than that by end of this year. But we should also be prepared for bigger dump which might push price back to $1500 region.

yes it is really a crazy prediction but we have to live in reality and in reality i do not think that the price of bitcoin will either reach or cross 10k $ because the price of bitcoin is not moving in such speed that it will reach 10k $ and also one thing more that if the price of bitcoin will cross 10k$ then if we face dump so it will not be such like that the price fall into 1500$.

If you go for analyzing how bitcoin prices have moved in the past then you may get an idea like just one week of time will be more than enough to cover some thousands of prices to be achieved. So, you never need to worry like at pace bitcoin prices are moving right now. It has all possibilities to have $10k value before end of this year.

I will just remain neutral to both of that years, because we don't know yet the real score here about bitcoin price, and we all knew that bitcoin price is always an unpredictable type of currency. You cannot predict a certain thing about it, only that we are in a certain situation price is possible to rise but not an idea of huge drop; there maybe fluctuations bit within the nominal. No one really can guarantee that 10k of 2018 to 2020 and for me in my own visionary, it may take at 4k to to 7k but eventually drops again at $3.5k plus within that year. That's by reasons of changing minds of the investors and also because of many dumpings as people will sell their holding if needed to use the funds.

Well in my own its still not possible $10k value this year can be reach like other said the movement of the price fluctuate is not so fast we are naturally increase and growing gradually.. we already seen the movement of the price past year ago i think 2013 but because of many users of bitcoin right now its impossible to see that the price of bitcoin can be increase fast or instant.. except if you can invest billions of dollars in bitcoin it can be affected the price and increase until reach $10k value but its impossible we are just all investing small amount for gaining profit.. and they are just following the trends if they heard a good news they buy bitcoins if they heard bad news they are panic sell that is why the price of bitcoin is not stable.
The possible price can be reach this year is around $3,000-$3,500 value..

I agree

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Ha ha ha ha

These analysts constantly fail in their predictions, I stopped believing in these analysts

Anything is possible with bitcoin. Except this!

3x every year.
10x when halving append.

simple.




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That would be the all time high if price would really get that but as far as i know theirs so many struggles yet coming to bitcoins right now but let see how will go unto it if segwit will be approve since their are people spreading some bad and good fuds unto it. But maybe I think there would be a good scenario will happen since august 1 will surely bring another leap to us.

I do not think that the current bullish trend has enough momentum to push the price at that point, and to be honest I do not think it is so convenient for the bitcoin-based economy to experience such a rapid rise, since a more stable behavior and less volatility is needed to generate confidence in the usability of bitcoin as a reliable currency to make financial transactions without facing the possibility of seeing our money at risk.

But in addition, such a high price would discourage many new interested parties from acquiring bitcoins, knowing that from one day to the next it may suffer great oscillations of 20-30% in its price.

I think $10,000 for bitcoin price is too ambitious for this year. We could even see a correction with the price dropping the rest of the year. The most likely scenario is a correction first and then a gradual increase with a few fluctuations along the way. I do think that the price will eventually hit $10,000 but a few years down the road.

First of all, these "self-proclaimed" analysts are rarely right about anything.

Usually, they just say whatever benefits them the most. So if they hold bitcoin, and they want to make a profit of it, then they will tell everyone else that have subscribed to their newsletters or articles and so on to buy into bitcoin and make ridiculous predictions.

I'm not saying though that the bitcoin haters are right either, in fact they are probably proven to be the most inaccurate predictors in history. The truth lies usually somewhere in the middle.

$10k would mean that the bitcoin capitalization is over $100 billion. If people dump altcoins for bitcoin, this is entirely possible. But right now icos are pretty hot, and i wouldn't say that any sort of regulation will be put in by the end of 2017, so personally for me, 10k is possible just not this fast.

The end price expectation from majority of the users is from $3000-$5000 and by the same time if the price peaking happens and reaches $10000 or even higher every user will be happy on it. Hope something good happens by the year end.

Ambitioin wich is good for bitcoin believers since before when bitcoins price is cents no one believes it and looks what happen now it gains thousands of dollars in current rate so 10,000$ maybe not reached on this year but for the fact that flactuation and adoption is doing great right now maybe the range price we can see this year is at 5000$.

That's funny but true.

It seems like that every time there is a halving the aftershock can last up to 1-2 years. And then there is like 2 years of quiet time when nobody talks about bticoin and the price isn't going anywhere, the community interest dies down, and when the next halving comes, everyone just sort of comes out of their sleep again and start investing in bitcoin, driving up the price.

I wouldn't say that $10k is possible this year though because bitcoin has already went up by like 700% from $400. To get to $10,000 would mean quadruple the price of the current bitcoin to usd value, which isn't that doable tbh.

You can probably flip a coin and probably make better predictions than these 'analysts'. Analysts in equity markets usually have a track record and we can look at how their past recommendations have played out. In the crypto-world, there is nothing like that.

Honestly speaking so do I. I think it is too much price for the bitcoin.
This is something expecting so much from the Bitcoin, currently the situation of the bitcoin don’t look like it can cross $4000 till the end of this year. At first I thought it will cross $5000 but now I am afraid that it may reach $3500 till the end of this year.

I wonder what kind of experts give such forecasts? The fact is that my would be happy to hold at least 3000 or 4000 dollars. And such scales are very huge and it seems to me impracticable.

Not possible bitcoin will need to reach above 160billion in the market cap for that to happen which is more than the maximum market cap of all the cryptocurrencies combined  and that is without taking into consideration that the market at the time has lost 10 to 15 billions in just the past few days and it seems the crash is going to go for some time.

Maybe not $10,000, but I will not be surprised if it does. There is a lot of fresh liquidity flowing into bitcoin, thanks to a surge in interest among investors in asia, notably japan and korea, coupled with a resolution to the scaling debate. I would not be surprised to see the bitcoin price doubling again to around $6000 by the end of the year.

If we are talking about the possibilities and probabilities, then yes it is possible and probable that we will reach the 10,000 dollar mark within this year (2017) since the future lies in mystery and we cannot know anything until we get there. However, we only have about 5 months in order to be there and by looking at the current price, we should have about 1600 USD increase every month. That is a big value and by reality, it is doubtful. If a big bubble occur within the 5 month duration, it is possible to touch the 10,000 dollar but it will be just for a moment then a sudden and harsh drop will be experienced.

Not possible to reach that price in this year as it seems to be unrealistic price to think of and if it does then it will be an win win situation for each and every investor of bitcoins and surely everyone would be start selling their coins if it touches that price and I would be satisfied even if it achieves the price of $5k in this year as even that would be a great price to sell some of bitcoins.

It now does seem like we are in a phase of consolidation. But I would wait to see how the segwit activation goes. That is a double-edged sword. It is possible that market sentiment turns hugely bullish post that.

Hope the year end price for 2017 seems to be $5000, not exceeding that because the increase is happening in a smaller scale compared to the one that took place when the price was moving from $1500 - $2500. Also the price has been trailing downwards and today this has begun to increase today. So based on the sustained growth I believe $5000.

You cannot expect same rate of growth for year long. Slow down usually occur just before another big leap. I guess $10k prices could be easily achievable before end of this year as bitcoin already triggered media coverage which is working as a promoting tool among merchants hence media and merchants combination working hard on enabling people to adopt bitcoins in greater numbers. Userbase must be enough reason for bitcoin to hit $10k.

Wecanhope for 5000$ 10000$ but what isrealisticscenariofor the end ofthe year ?

With this ransomware virus etc demanding BTC for payment, and being all over the news and facebook etc... It brings new interest to the subject.

The fact reamains, nobody knows.

Some pretty big players have given BTC credit like Forbes and Gates etc... it is quite different to 2014 when all the main stream playes were badmouthing it.

Some speculate BTC to be worth 100k in the next few years... so I remain agnostic. My fiat savings dwarf my BTC savings but I have BTC for long term investment.

This article puts things into perspective...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/russia-caves-in-on-bitcoin-to-open-new-front-on-money-laundering (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/russia-caves-in-on-bitcoin-to-open-new-front-on-money-laundering)

If you follow the logic, then your forecast is correct. But the cryptocurrency is rarely subject to logic and calculations. So you can expect anything. I hope, in addition to falling

if it punches through $2600 in the next 24 hours then we might be in for a suprise

Not really. If you look at how the market has been performing lately, you'll notice how repetitive the patterns are. It will continue to bounce up and down below the $3000 level, as long as there isn't any sort of good news coming regarding the activation of SW2X. Till that time no one should expect fireworks. If you're holding, just keep waiting, and if you're a trader, then use these ups and downs in your advantage. There isn't much more that you can do.

Agreed, floor seems to be at $2400ish, as soon as it goes below that, just a few dollars, people start buying in and the price recovers fairly quickly to stablilize at $2400-$2600. And then people seem to buy in even more, pumping the price up to $2700-$2900, which is probably the roof for now.

If you can buy in at that low of $2400 when everyone is panicking and sell at the high of $2900 when everyone goes crazy buying, you're looking at a $500 profit per trade here. And this opportunity has presented itself at least 2-3 times during the past few weeks.

The UASF will probably disrupt this pattern though, depending on how successful it is, bitcoin could end up in a mess, or just shoot up over the roof. $10k? Not an issue if bitcoin stays in one piece and scales somewhat through SW.

I think its highly impossible to reach that high price.We may expect $10k price in the year 2020.But in 2017 end,bitcoin could be expected to cross $3500.In august 1st,after segwit activation,we could expect bitcoin price to rise high.

The price almost reached 3000 dollars per coin without segwit activated so I think if bitcoin finally activates segwit it could be possible the price to go way higher than that, maybe in the range of 4 to 5 thousand dollars, 3500 seems a little low for me, but at the end getting segwit activated is still a big if, I want that to happen but I will believe it when I see it.

Not possible for bitcoin to reach 10k $ by the end of 2017 by looking on current situation of bitcoin in the market, but we say that by the end of this year price will be above 3500$.

Their is a possibility of bitcoin to reach that value. But all is based on market. Since the price of bitcoin is keeps on increasing due to bitcoin users. Eventhough it not reach 10k $. At the end of 2017,the price of bitcoin will be 5000 $ .

At first, I'm optimistic to see bitcoin's price $10k before this year ends. But now with the current price of bitcoin it's becoming stuck at the $2,300 - $2,500. And that's why I think we will not see bitcoin's price at $10k and right now we are going to wait for the day comes at August 1.

There are certainly different things that are going to hurt the price mainly the ever going scaling debate and unless we see a concrete answer regarding that and it scales without any hard fork then we can expect those valuations, if there is a hard fork then i do not think the price would reach those valuations any time soon.

Although everything could happen. $10k within this year is really impossible for me. That is way too high to just reach it with the remaining months. We will take how many years first before we could get into that price. Realistic price for me within this year is just $3500-$5000.

I wouldn't be surprised if $10 k bitcoin there aren't many fresh liquidity flows into the bitcoin, thanks to a surge in interest among investors in asia, particularly Japan and korea, coupled with a resolution to debate the scale. I wouldn't be surprised to see the price of the bitcoin doubling again for around $6000 at the end of the year. I just hope this is really happening and realized that bitcoin will show his true identity at the end of the year 2017

Very impossible to reach that  price of bitcoin this 2017. 10k ?  Bitcoin cant even pass the 3100$ price  . Were now already in the middle of the year yet another news is coming which may give a big impact on bitcoin price.

Because there is nothing that can justify the price to solidly break through the $3000 mark without SegWit being activated and running.

People for once should stop focusing on insanely high prices without looking at how the current situation regarding the scaling aspect is progressing.

$10K is so far from the current price now, even if we wait until december before we sell our bitcoins, the price will never reach to $10K.  I think it will just pass $3100 this last month of the year, don't say that it will not pass, especially after the panic on August. We all know that the change or pump of price always happen at month of December.

Here on the forum everyone is self proclaimed bitcoin expert, and speculation threads are full with many different predictions, from zero to the moon. Since I'm here people always wish for more, when we get to 10000$ people will wish to see 20000$, and when will that stop?
I also expect price to rise, don't get me wrong, but maybe we need to be patient and wait that to happen naturally, with good news and adoption price can go up slowly, and 10000$ before new year is not slowly at all. I'm trying to think about what needs to happen for bitcoin to increase so much, some massive adoption, many countries to legalize bitcoin, or just activation of segwit is enough?! I'm not sure, bitcoin price surprised me too many times until now, I doubt in 10k before new year, but but, who knows.

We are from that reality and we say that its impossible to happen. Its because we are not seeing some indication but once you started to see bitcoins price pump then thats going to change the words by those people who said that its impossible or not going to happen this year.

With bitcoin everything is possible. But always I make a prediction without any deadline, because when the price pumping takes place and when the price dump happens, no one is sure about that. Only the hope makes things possible, as the entire cryptocurrency is truly speculative in its development.

Here everyone gives their respective opinions. They make predictions according to their analysis. Bitcoin prices are very easy to change, the changes are very fast. In a single time we can see the price of bitocin increased and a few minutes later the price could decrease drastically. So anyone can not guarantee the price will change according to what they predict, everything will know when the time has come.

Not that impossible! who knows....
look at ltc after seg-wit.

I don't see it happening for this year. I'm putting my expectation on this price on 2018. And that's why I'm not going to make myself believe that it's going to happen on this year but if unexpected thing happened and the price of bitcoin reached $10k at this year, well that's a surprised and it's a good thing.

Look at the price of litecoin before all the segwit and lightening network plans came into effect and look at the price now,it is true that litecoin did not make any massive break through after the activation of segwit but you must give them some time and one thing you have to understand is that they never had a serious delay issues like we have in bitcoin.

I think you are terribly optimistic.Its hardly impossible for bitcoin to reach that price.We could expect bitcoin to cross $3500 by the end of 2017.Thats all we could expect from such a potential coin,bitcoin.

That $3500 by the end of 2017 is not a one hundred percent possible, because of of ununited decisions made from trader online; even me personally I was selling my traded coin at trading sites without knowing it eventually grow it's value in the next few days. If we look to the vision of $10k, there is no way for that and even price will boom higher to rise it doesn't guarantee ongoing progress of marketplace value due to a lot of fluctuations to happen before meeting that kind of price. Let' s just see to it that price was just a day dream for all of us here.

In my own speculation the price of bitcoin is impossible to rich $10k value it needs a lot of investors before it happens..
But i think the price can be touch like other said around $3k to $3.5k this is i think much more possibility to reach than the amount you are expecting..
$10k value this amount can be happen but not this year i think after block halving it could be happen or nearly..

In six months time anything can happen,and when it comes to BTC nothing is impossible.But it is hard to expect that price can reach 10k$ by the end of this year unless something big and positive happens.Much will depend on how things will be solved regarding scaling issues,so price can go in both directions.We all like to see big price,but such things does not happen overnight-just remember how long we waited to BTC reach 1000$.Be happy with this price,and if I see 5000k$ at the end of this year, for me it will be great price :)

During 2014 when price was around $700-$800 before it's eventual fall to sub $200, most were predicting $2000 by 2015. Given bitcoin's price patterns of the past, what makes you sure that the price will continue to rise from here? wouldn't it be just as likely to see a $1200 price in 2018?

Very likely to see the $ 1500 in 2018, it will be very healthy so that in a future continue to rise and reach 100 billion

Do not expect too high from bitcoins in short term as if it doesn't reaches there then it will be an disappointing feeling for all of us and I don't think it will touch that high price in this year and to see this price we may have to wait very long and I would be very much happy even if it touches $3k price in this year.

I'm saying that if unexpected thing comes and bitcoin is going to reach $10k this year then that's an amazing thing to all of us, isn't it? Well everyone can happen for now and it's going to be depend on what's your goal in bitcoin. I as a long time holder is now trying to think to set a smaller price and sell's it without regret and just go for the profit.

Yes, I agree. We should be happy of the current price because it is very healthy in my opinion. I saw a lot of predictions that is should be down by now but look at where the price is. I'm not very positive that $10000 price could be breach in 2017. Too many factors that should influenced it to reach that price. I will be very happy if the price could touch $3000 after Aug 1. And then we shall see if $5000-$1000 is possible to target next.

At the moment that is the most important thing, we need segwit activated but we need to avoid the hard fork, if we don’t then the price could become irrelevant since the whole bitcoin project could be at risk, and if bitcoin falls, I think it is safe to assume that most cryptocurrencies will go down as well, since many investors will lose faith and will never invest money in crypto again.

It's really happening, after the pump expect that there is a dump. But well everything seems to happen now for bitcoins price. We don't know if there will be another pump or there will be a dump, no one can tell. But when the price starts to fall everyone seems to do panic selling and that is making everyone scared of not selling their bitcoin. $10k for this year, we'll see.

It all depends on how things go, because if the miners will allow SegWit2X to activate, a hard fork will be unavoidable. In the way their proposal is set up, SegWit needs to get locked in, and then activated, and around 3 months after that, the hard fork will follow. If SegWit2X isn't going to get activated before the first of August, the road is free for the UASF to take over. In this case miners might decide to fork off, but hey, everyone is free to follow their own route. And no, whatever happens, Bitcoin won't be at risk, and its price will never be irrelevant -- this isn't the first time Bitcoin has overcome major difficulties....