I think it can close this month at $4500 and close the next at $6000. I dont think it will reach 10k at the end of the year. There will be FUD in November so the price will be probably around $7000 at the end of year.
In the last couple of days bitcoin made a triple top, and it didn't manage to reach it's all time high. So it i going to pull back and take a breather and investors are going to play a wait and see game for the next few weeks while the watch what happens to the mempool and the back-and-forth game with BCH as regards the hashrate.
If bitcoin can clear the mempool, I reckon investors will pile in again. If it can't they might conclude it's broken.
The only way I can see the mempool clearing is if people hold off sending transactions for the time being (use litecoin or doge or ether or something to send from exchange to exchange).
Mempool won't be cleared, people won't move their btc to segwit address first and many wallets and merchants will not support it for a long time. Dont ever expect users to do something that's harder than counting from 1 to 3, that's why soft forks are bad and probably hard fork is the way to go when it comes to protocol changes, bigger blocks would have solved it already.... it supports the idea that bitcoin will never be a payment system, just a digital gold. We already have other blockchain technology building to be much better for payment system and can handle FIAT+all crypto, it's called OMG (OmiseGo) by payment processer in SEA area called Omise and Ethereum founders like Vitalik Buterin and Gavin Wood and many other people... (Roger Ver, Founders of Golem, Plasma, Lightning network, etc.).
