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More and more and more actors from the NYC agreement are dropping like flies. Now we have BTCC out of the agreement. Along with f2pool, this is a big chunk of hashrate that segwit2x lost. Bitfury will also potentially not be mining segwit2x. This would be the nail in the coffin, not even considering Bitcoin Core 0.15 is comming out soon which everyone will upgrade to.

With segwit2x out of the picture, we can hit $10,000 easily during 2018, so hold on to your coins and stop falling for the government ban nonsense.

It might be possible, but the prediction itself is quite insane because btc rally has been continuing for a while now so maybe a dump period will come and we will see again 1000$ price. It is also possible that the rally will continue even past 2018 and I would really like to see that and I would really love to see your prediction happening OP. Even if that is the case, I am still pessimistic about it and I doubt if this will come true or not.

Well BTCC isn't out of the agreement as far as I know. They just weren't signaling it for a few blocks. As we know, signaling means nothing.
As long as there is no official statement by Bobble Lee or somebody else there is no reason to believe they've left the agreement.
What Alex Petrov said was pretty interesting and gives me hope and was way more promising to believe the NYA agreement could fail.
The next weeks will be interesting regarding that topic.

Two months ago most of the people here were expecting 10000 USD price at the end of the year because of segwit2x activation.Now you are expecting the same 10000 USD price next year because of segwit2x failure.
I`m confused.Can you explain why are you making this prediction and what makes you so sure that bitcoin will double it`s value without segwit2x?

Indeed $10,000 by 2018 is looking like a possibility. All the investors might be so excited!!! :D

This forum is full of retards, if they weren't retards, they would already be in interesting ICOs (OMG, ZRX, Kyber) and ETH. Bitcoin with its protocol, cannot become a standard in digital payments.

Even if it hits 50k in a few years... it's just 12*the current price, which is ridiculously low compared to what you can achieve in more perspective coins with future.

Blockchain was brought by bitcoin, but it's done wrong, PoW and unscalable protocol.

Ethereum and OMG will soon implement plasma protocol to have 1 million transactions per second and PoS. Bitcoin and its PoW is just destroyoing the Earth.

Bitcoin already isn't the place where you become a millionaire. Just digital gold, nothing else.

2X has looked increasingly contentious after Core said they were going to have nothing to do with it. There are enough people who follow Core to have guaranteed some type of chain split which is never a good thing for Bitcoin's value or perception.

Segwit was the fully tested bit with the most potential and that's now a thing which happened without a chain split or hard fork. The 2MB part may well be necessary but not in the rushed way it's being proposed.

Ehh I don't think you are understanding what you are reading or you are reading the wrong news.

What was bullish was segwit activation. Never, ever has anyone (except the ones involved) interpreted segwit2x hardfork as being bullish. Segwit2x hardfork in november is the most bearish news ever because it would end up in 3 bitcoins and one crash for all of them. Possibly Bitcoin Trash would get pumped by Roger Ver temporarily but in any case it is bad for Bitcoin.

We must avoid the damn hardfork period. All the miners still supporting segwit2x are suicidal.

I think this will be the biggest test so far for us. The Segwit2x this coming November. For me this will significantly impact the price more than the Aug 1 split. I don't know though if is has gain traction or what, but base from what I read it will end up with 3 coins so its should be avoided at all cost because it will really pull down the market price again. We all know that when there is a panic, everyone follows resulting in the price pullback.

Panic sell on those times cant really be avoided and i do see that on those days it would really repeat on the thing that do happen before August 1 event which price would really dip.Same goes on that upcoming November.I am really ready on what thing do happen on that day this is why as of now i do save up money until that day comes so that i can buy more cheaper coins.

2x is the only reason why Segwit got implemented. Otherwise, it was taking forever for Segwit to get "consensus". Right now, transaction fees have moderated and nobody seems to be worried. It is only a matter of time before talk about increasing capacity and talks of a fork start coming up again.

10k is a milestone but my 2018 prediction is 50k

$10,000 is very predictable to happen next year. It was my plan even before that to hold my bitcoins for better and thanks for the buff that you have a good prediction there. And I'll wait for that time when I click my bookmark with preev.com the price will pop out to $10,000.

Great post buddy & I certainly hope your prediction for the price comes true. If I was told even just a year ago that bitcoin could reach $10,000 within a year or two I would have laughed. Things are looking promising, fingers crossed.

Yes smart people around the world are noticing how resilient (and unstoppable) bitcoin is. Bitcoin is growing immensely despite all big banks in every country starting a war 4-years ago on bitcoin in 2013 - all supervisors and tellers have been told to reject transactions relating to bitcoin if they are told about it but all of us people in the world keep quiet and buy/sell transactions but never say "bitcoin". Bitcoin pwned outdated Banks.

Amazing to see global trade growth on localbitcoins as well (scroll down to see all the individual countries:
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins (https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins)

Another strong solution that will make bitcoin's decentralization stronger is cross-chain atomic swaps! Decentralized trade without fiat.

Regardless of the outcome of Segwit2x we have a pretty good shot at achieving $10,000 per coin next year. The pumps seem to keep coming and are probably going to continue to be this way until next year, at least.

The government bans don't really affect bitcoin at all. It'll affect altcoins mainly, since it is based on ICOs.

Maybe it will be achieved before the year of 2018 ends. Mentioned about segwit2x and hardfork. There'll be a hardfork in the month of November and if it will be successful just like what happened last August, it will be one of the factors that will make the market value of Bitcoin more expwnsive. And for the nexy year, I think there'll be another one. And since the demand is now increasing, it is really possible for Bitcoin to be more expensive on following years to come.

Dont expect mind blowing numbers for near future. If we are going to forecast the future prices let's start with fundamental analysis: Mass adoption is key for this unreal results ;)

there is a possibility, since it can be backed up by the good news coming around recently, i think if japan became successful with its plans, like having their banks accept cryptocurrency and soon all japanese citizens will be inclined with cryptocurrency, if this happens, we can say that by 2018, a lot of countires will also follow, since the banks problem with bitcoin, is that if everyone uses it, their business will be ruined, but if japan can sow them that both can live together, then there is a possibility, that we'll never hear banks bad mouthing bitcoin, right now we hear them saying they're against bitcoins, but somehow the tides are changing, i think they started to understand what is going on with bitcoin right now, and if most of the banks do agree to also use cryptocurrency, i think there will be a global acceptance of bitcoin and for sure the its value will go up, as of now, we can just watch, what is happening to japan and in time, people will accept bitcoin, and probably by 2018, it can have a value of 10000 usd.

End of 10,000 why not. If the price gets to 6,000 in January, I can perfectly picture 10,000 for the end of 2018.
Soon or later we are due for more stable price with slowest increase, but yes the future looks bright for me.

Bitcoin price is very possible to reach 10,000USD in 2018. although it looks like a dream but we can confirm today that bitcoin prices continue to rise with a very stable. the increase in bitcoin prices is influenced by many things such as the increasing demand factor as well as the decisions that affect bitcoin. I'm sure if bitcoin can survive and more and more people are using bitcoin then the price could reach 10,000USD by 2018. we have to wait and see for ourselves what happened in that year. hopefully everything goes smoothly and we can see bitcoin is much more well developed.

Price COULD go up to $10,000 or even more by 2018.

Price has already gone up so much this year and even though we are in another bull wave right now, i don't think that it is as strong as it needs to be to push the price up by 200+% once again, even in the best case scenario.

I don't think it's going to happen. But it is a possibility.

I don't know. We may see another push upwards, I agree with that. But it also could be the last one and then we will go bear for a few months to a year. Why? Because we almost had a 2 year bull phase now. And big guys are interested to get into Bitcoin. For that they will find ways to tank the price and wash out the noobs and guys without strong hands and real faith.
I might be wrong and I don't want that to happen, but at some point we will go full bear!

Today price is 4500 dollars and continue to increase. And maybe we see the price of bitcoin 10k dollars in the year of 2018 but we dont know what month but they have possibility also that not happen . I dont know if segwit or fork have effect to bitcoin price maybe yes and I hope the effect is good so the price will increase and those people have bitcoin can earn a lot of profit.

I like this prediction, but it will be full of challenge, but I can see there are so many people supporting bitcoin and joining to invest in crypto currencies, and this is a great news, the transaction of alt coin will impact on bitcoin, so I am waiting for bitcoin reaching 10k, and I sense it will be reaching that number in the end of 2018

We've got used to seeing rapid price growths of bitcoin, but currently is struggles very hard at this $4000-5000 range. I mean it looks like it's about to break $5000 and it falls again. Maybe it needs time, but such behaviour shows that it is not ready to go that high so quickly. So it's more like "$10,000 during the late 2018 seems like possibility". Also if it's true, then it's also worth to hold some altcoins, as they tend to raise in price accordingly with bitcoin. So the more successful bitcoin is, the whole cryptocurrency market raises.

Time really is the key for the growth of bitcoin and we can see that the value is increasing every time we see good news about bitcoin and I think japan has doing a great job in proceeding an innovative approach with bitcoin and had recently launched largest bitcoin exchange by volume, Bitflyer is a reloadable Visa prepaid card, and Taiwan is getting friendly with bitcoin and ICO's let's just wait for further more countries that would accept bitcoin I think that will be the key in reaching the $10,000 value mark.

I don't think so since Bitcoin is still on the progress of recovering from the backrop that happened recently. But if it will be able, maybe it will happen before 2018 ends so it might be on the 3rd quarter of that year. If the hardfork in November will be a success, it will make the market value of Bitcoin high before this year end, it will also make a huge probability for Bitcoin to reach 10k next year since the demand will also increase if the fork will succeed because its value will be more expensive.

I believe that bitcoin will reach such a price next year and all factors have such rapid growth. The ban of China or other bad news can not bring it down.

What you consider to be a struggling market, is what I consider to be a top performing market -> it's a great achievement that with an important event such as the 2MB hard fork in November, we can still maintain levels over $4000 without much problems. Currently, the market is up like 350% this year, so it shouldn't be a surprise to see the market not push further.

$10,000 is too much to ask for to happen this year. I think that we'll be just fine letting that level be something we (hopefully) get to experience before the end of 2018. And yes, Bitcoin's bullish sentiment flows through the entire crypto market, so it only makes sense to see altcoins lift up as Bitcoin goes through the roof.

I believe price of bitcoin will explode for a brief period of time up to $10.000 by 2018 and then stabilize at this value for the long term. I think we can expect significant growth from BTC. Bitcoin has greater potentials without being affected by the ban of China.

10000$ level is not real till end of this year.Investors are looking for lowest price opportunities.Maybe next year big downtrend will happen which followed by new uptrend.

Bitcoin was designed to rise more than $10K go as high as $50K $100K. but I can't say the same for other clones of Bitcoin, last hard fork caused the price to increase from $1380 to $4200 and another hard fork is causing another increasing of price. why there was no corrections last time? the support from the markets kept it from falling, if price goes any further than $5000 I believe it wont be coming back down again, now China will have to try other strategies to dump the price.

Not with Segwit2x, bitcoin core developers have been taken steps to ensure segwit2x will be another altcoin, not a part of bitcoin nodes.
We can say bitcoin will reach $10000 in 2018 because there are a lot of factors affect bitcoin price, and the most significant is government regulation regarding cryptocurrency after China banned most exchanges, bitcoin price fallen significantly and now there is a news about Malaysia's central bank may ban cryptocureency as well to prevent financial crime and terrorism financing https://news.bitcoin.com/malaysias-central-bank-signals-year-end-bitcoin-ban/. Although Malaysia isn't a big deal to influence people to speculate about bitcoin price, but the most important thing which affect bitcoin price is regulation of a country against bitcoin.

The majority of bitcoin users predict the price of 2018 will reach $ 10,000, I'm also so because of the increasing user and the value of the transaction to make bitcoin prices continue to rise and expensive.

Sigwit2x activation is going to push bitcoin' price upwards movement. Bitcoin is going to get to $10,000 before 2019 and I do believe that history is going to repeat itself again.we should expect another buying momentum from now till the end of this year.

Your prediction bro is to high for the upcoming year 2018 maybe 10k is enough that is 5 times for the other prediction value? Cause if bitcoin reach that value its to hard to earn even satoshi think . Now a days even 6k is to hard to reach also. Haha and all of the investor will be rich in year 2018 if that prediction will happened.  But its impossible to reach cuase its to high . I have a prediction also it will reach 7-8k but it will fall again deeply and back to 4-5k . But i wish that it will become stable in the next year even 7k is enough for me. .

Yes, without doubt segwit2x is expected to make a good change in the growth of the price. Just before those days of implementation price fall will be experienced. During this fall, users easily get into the panicking state and tend to sell their holdings. Probably after certain time gap the growth once again gets initiated taking it to $10000 or even higher.

I think $10000 is quite impossible for bitcoin to hit by next year maybe after 2 more years, it’s more likely that it may reach $7000. We can see the highest value of bitcoin today is $5000 and I don’t think just by few months it will suddenly double, anyways bitcoin is unpredictable and anything can happen in the future.

I don't believe that bitcoin value were reach $10000 this time, because for me it is too much high to reach. Bitcoin value now in the market was slowly moving, so I have no basis that bitcoin had a capacity to reach that value in 2018. Maybe half of that are the only amount reached by the bitcoin. 

bitcoin price can be possible to increase at $10,000 by 2018 and even more, we are see a new era or new ways for people to make money in next year. with so many new technology will develop, i think it will affect with the price to be increase. i think in 2018, bitcoin user will increase and this will affect with supply and demand. with the increasing of difficulty, the amount is reduce too and the price should be increase because people want to take a part in bitcoin world.

It seems to me that people have turned bitcoin in God and now pray to him in the hope that it will enrich all. Can't all be rich. It is beyond the power even of God. Why do you believe in such optimistic forecasts? The growth of bitcoin 10 times in one year is unlikely. It seems to me that if the price held at about $ 5,000 is already a very good result.

well if we are really aiming why not aim high as we are seeing how the coin is really climbing better to stay close and look at is really making great moves,
bitcoin can possibly reach that amount we don't know yet when will be the time for that to hit the target but maybe a year or two and we will all enjoy.

Given that bitcoin has done 5x so far this year it really isn't out of the question for bitcoin to do 2x in 2018, presuming that it finishes up 2017 somewhere around the $5k mark.

I would call it an inevitability at this point.  I was actually just coming here to say today may be the single best day in Bitcoin history yet.  I'm not talking about any increase in volume, I'm talking about what's happening in the world... there is a lot of promising news today.  Not just about Bitcoin but cryptocurrency in general.  I believe it was Uganda that is trying to create their own national cryptocurrency.  The EU is of course trying to block it.  Although this has nothing to do with Bitcoin in general it's a great sign.  It shows how countries are taking notice of the potential of cryptocurrency as far more than just some passing fad.  It shows that the EU considers it a serious threat to their own paper currency, the 2'nd strongest in the world by the way.  If they considered it just some scam or a passing fad they'd hardly be shaking in their boots over the prospects of it.  Several other countries as well moving to adopt Bitcoin, though I now forget which ones... I read several articles on the deep web and confused many details now, but not the main jist.  Goldman Sachs is seriously considering getting in on the action, concerning Bitcoin specifically, no other cryptocurrency.  What one can read into things is that they don't have supreme confidence in cryptocurrency as a whole, but they do in Bitcoin specifically.  And that is exactly how I feel too by the way.  This is coming off the heels of JP Morgan just last week announcing that they no longer consider Bitcoin just a passing fad.

... it is more than clear now that it is not.  It's grown past the point where not only can it be taken lightly like that anymore, it's grown into a living, breathing entity with it's own mind at this point and cannot even be controlled by the controllers.  Even the most optimistic traders that were there since it's inception could have forseen what it will eventually grow into.  It's like a boulder rolling downhill at this point, picking up speed, and it can't be stopped.  You either get behind it or get out of the way.  But unlike the boulder those who get out of the way will regret it... many already have, but it's hardly too late to get on board.  You won't be able to exponentially, many times over double up your money like those who got into it when it was still in the 3 digits, but you can double up at the very least, and probably even double up again, and possibly a 3'rd time in a few/several years if I'm correct.  I never doubted that it'd reach 5 digits, and saw the high mark somewhere around 35,000 before it retracts like all things eventually do that expand.  There very well may come a time when the plug is pulled and someone makes off with everyones money.  That it turns out to be a long con.  Or some hacker(s) beat/break the blockchain technology... or that that's just the cover story and it's made to look that way by the crook that took everyones money.  But it's not going to happen any time soon and there's a lot of money to be made before that happens.  My advice is that when the time comes that you feel it's reached that high water mark get out and cash in your chips while you still can.  You'll have to use your intuition because there will be no sign... no hints or any news until after the fact.  That's how those things go down.  But even "if" you feel that that will eventually come to pass, again, there's a lot of money to be made until it does, and everyone in all the right places are starting to realize it right now at this very moment.  A few days ago I said to expect a bull market soon...  I think it's arrived.  You might want to turn whatever cash you can spare into Bitcoins right now. 

I said that I expected it to reach 10K by the end of 2019, but now I believe your timeline is more accurate, though I'd say by the "end" of 2018, not the beginning.  Though I wouldn't be surprised if it rises a couple grand in the next month alone.

That could very well happen within the next couple of days.

There will be always possibilities for bitcoin prices in the future, but I doubt if bitcoin can reach $10K caused by segwit2x.
Bitcoin scheduled to experience another hard fork by the end of this month, BTG will be created from bitcoin nodes but the puzzle remain a mystery in my opinion. Time will reveal the truth about the next bitcoin hard fork and how it's affect bitcoin price, whether people will get free coins or not.
Whether BTG price could reach over $1000 like BCash did before or won't ever surpass $500 mark.

big question waiting for such an answer the movement of bitcoin right now is just another hyped knowing that fork is incoming, people are accumulating
and from that we seen a good positive movement from the value of btc im not sure what will happen after the fork if correction will make some downside
or resistance will keep it up and reach another ath breaking 5k$.

Very possible, indeed. I'm going to make a bet with my  friend that on the second half of 2018, btc price will surpass $10k.

It's not likely to happen. However, just last week, this forum was full of people who said we wouldn't see the 5k mark in 2017.  Here we are almost at that mark just a week later.   The way bitcoin moves is so crazy that I wouldn't be surprised if we reached that mark by 2018.

I agree. Factors that will help this thing to happen is the demand that is continuously increasing and the approaching hardfork in November. Since the demand of Bitcoin in the market is increasing, its market value is getting more expensive. There are possibilities that backdrops will take place as the fork is getting near. But as you've said the best thing to do is to hold and witness how Bitcoin reach 10000 dollars next year or maybe before this year end if possible.

My prediction: 5800 in January 1st.  ;)

It's possible to reach $10000 but I think 2018 is way too early for that. Give it at least 2-3 years, assuming there are no economic breakdown, wars or calamity that might hinder it. $5000 is within reach today, I'm speculating the price by 1st quarter of 2018 is $5500-6000.

Well, 10k is 100% from now (possibly 80% by 2018)
In two years time, that is a growth of 40% a year (or less) - people will start investing on apple or facebook, much better returns. I really hope we do a good S growth otherwise we lag behind

I knew about the F2Pool but I did not knew about BTCC and I just read it in reddit, this is good news, maybe we can avoid the hard fork and if some still decide to hard fork despite all what is happening then it is possible the segwit2x hard fork becomes as inconsequential as the BCH hard fork and the bitcoin gold hard fork, with this and the lightning network activating in the 2018 then bitcoin could reach a price of 10k.

By Q42018, possibly at the end of 2018, but only if everything goes fine, But by Mid 2019, we surely gonna see the price range touching $10000.
By the end of 2018 mostly it will tough $7000-$8000, unless we see some miracle. The price surely jumps pretty high very often, but making small range periods with so high value may dissatisfy and may impact the mindset against it.

As of now the price of bitcoin is already 4900 dollars and I think it will continue to increase again and possible this day or tomorrow hit 5k dollars . I think they have possibility the price of bitcoin increase more in the next few weeks and 10k dollars in the year 2018 is high chances to happen because many investor invest to this project so bitcoin price continue to increase. More bitcoin more money.

Apparently, people always just end up rolling with the tide and subjecting any recent event in favor of how they speculate. That is the only power we have anyway, predict, speculate, hope. Reaching that mark is possible.
Earlier this year, no one would have thought bitcoin will even get to this point it is today but here we are and we are still climbing and no one knows the value it will climb to even before the year ends.

If we are talking the whole period of 2018 then I agree with you.  I always find forked and upgrade bullish for Bitcoin.  And since it is the gateway (the current upgrade for implementation of segwit 2x )upgrade for lots of improvement.  I believe Bitcoin might probably exceed $10k at the end of 2018.

This is a wonderful forecast and I hope that it will be realized in 2018. He has all the prospects for such growth, one needs only to believe in him and help develop.

Indeed the future of bitcoins does look bright, and this is not the time to think of dumping whatever bag of coins we have, we need investors to take notice of bitcoin and start pumping their funds in this technology to make such forecasts to come true.

I have no doubt this will be realized as unemployment which is popular all around the world favours bitcoins booming and will also empower all adopters of the digital asset.

Some do have a blind faith in bitcoin but I think the reasons for that and why everyone thinks we can become rich with it is for the simple fact that we still got early in bitcoin, if the price is this high with such a small amount of bitcoin users, then when bitcoin reaches world wide adoption the the prices are going to be much higher and that is going to give us all a chance to become rich.

The price of bitcoin in 2017 increased more than fivefold. And it seems to me that in 2018 the price could be even higher than $ 10,000. If in 2018 the price increases five-fold, then we can see 25,000 dollars

Yes sure,i think 10k in 2018 is very possible but with this with this kind of growth he can over 20k in 2018,i hope that other currency will growth like bitcoin.

10,000 isn't even looking impossible before the end of 2017. It's astronomically high compared to the prices by the end of 2016, but I think it's way possible to happen just by basing on how things are running right now. $20,000 isn't looking impossible as well by 2018 and maybe mcafee is looking like the prophet we were all looking for. $100,000 might be possible by 2020.

it won't happen before 2018 and it should not happen in that time frame.

unless you want a real bubble not just a FUD bubble they keep repeating.

25000 dollars are very far away but 10000 dollars are a lot closer and I think it is possible that we get to that price before the end of 2018, we may get there sooner but I think that is a more conservative estimate, especially if we take into account how much bitcoin has gone up in price in the last weeks and months, this is why I always recommend people to hold their bitcoin but some people simply do not listen.

If Segwit2x doesn't happens, then it would be like a good news for the community and price can easily boom from here. But right now Bitcoin is overpriced. The fall is evident but can be recovered easily. Price will most probably be touching $7k value by the end of this year and $10k is possible in first quarter or half of 2018.

One good reason to keep it.
Everyday there could be a new user that wants to have bitcoin. If that happen then it will be just a manner of time when every user will have that bitcoin and there will be less in the circulation.
With that demands will increase and that is a sure way of a price hike again.

So you just confirmed that this 'faith is bitcoin' is somewhat justified by fact that we are still early adopters (despite what people say about 'expensive' bitcoin).
$10,000 bitcoin is certain - the only real question is when we will reach that milestone - 2018 seems good guess. At least when we base our observation on previous bitcoin price movements.

To the moon Alice!

Buckle your seat belts.

I made a bet that Bitcoin is going to go up:

https://stockbet.com/#/BullBear/round/17971

Get on the right side.

I think segwit2x is going to happen, now I do not think it is going to be very successful since the support of the community is still with the core developers and many think this fork is nothing but a way for the miners to try to show their power but the failure of segwit2x and all the other forks that have been created in the last months will allow us return to having  only one bitcoin and not all these copycat coins that add nothing to the community.

I keep purchasing bitcoin every month since I know bitcoin always have an uptrend for a long period

Reaching $ 7500++ is insane and I think most people never thought that it can happen but it's happen !
So yeah if the trend always same like current , the chance is higher !

Nice that's great how many are you purchasing monthly and how much do you spend with? One more question, how many you've got in total already? I did this before but I was quite unstable financially as there are so many expenses to put my money with.


It's totally insane, I never expected that it can go higher than $4,000 before but this is the reality and it's trying to kill me right now because I wasn't able to ride and get on this express.


Seems to be likely so hold on.

It has been in the news for so much latley because of the price climbings. I am sure that IF it will drop for a bit there will be buyers all over the place, that are now still waiting for that moment

agree many investors has waiting for bitcoin price to go down a bit It may eventually happen after the fork , that's why bitcoin price can be easily recovered after a small dip because of large whales waiting for it's price drop   , as of this moment I see that bitcoin will skyrocket until the fork occurs because people was insanely buying bitcoin to get some sort of free money

The growth keeps on continuing and making it to be the best growing asset than other available altcoins. This is all because of the support it has been gaining through different forms, as the price grew unexpected users thought it to be an temporary growth but it's keeps a good forward growth phase.

I truly believe on the price of bitcoin and other countries adopting bitcoin as a digital asset or known as commodity. Price increasing its because of the hardfork. they put bitcoin in the exchange just to get a snapshot of btc segwit2x. and if you saying that 10,000 by 2018 this is very possible