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.
Not with Segwit2x, bitcoin core developers have been taken steps to ensure segwit2x will be another altcoin, not a part of bitcoin nodes.
We can say bitcoin will reach $10000 in 2018 because there are a lot of factors affect bitcoin price, and the most significant is government regulation regarding cryptocurrency after China banned most exchanges, bitcoin price fallen significantly and now there is a news about Malaysia's central bank may ban cryptocureency as well to prevent financial crime and terrorism financing
https://news.bitcoin.com/malaysias-central-bank-signals-year-end-bitcoin-ban/. Although Malaysia isn't a big deal to influence people to speculate about bitcoin price, but the most important thing which affect bitcoin price is regulation of a country against bitcoin.