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.
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.