$10K at the end of 2017?

[batang_bitcoin]

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 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.

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?

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.

[Siren]

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.

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.

[Silberman]

Bitcoin cant even pass the 3100$ 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.

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.

[tabas]

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.

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.

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.

[richardsNY]

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

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....