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?
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