I was referring more to the by December thing. I think $10,000 requires some answers to present issues that haven't been satisfactorily addressed such as scalability but then again humans aren't the most patient or rational creatures.
Scaling will happen when the demand is there IMO. The Chinese farms may play hardball now but if they see their whole operations at risk of tanking overnight because the number of transactions are rising rapidly, they will concede rather than losing it all.
It is sort of like how telecoms had to be dragged kicking and screaming to upgrade their fiber optic cables with the rise of broadband, it's either evolve or die.