The uncertainty and general possible mayhem of the fork was the only thing standing in the way of $10,000 BTC by end of 2017. Now with the fork removed I think we are guaranteed to hit it in December.
How high do you think it'll go before end of year? If Bitcoin keeps its average pace this year it'll hit $11,000 roughly on the last day of the year.
Is it really true? Where did you get this infromation? And if it's true, will it be in favor for us? AFTER the hardfork, it is expected that the market value of Bitcoin will be more expensive because they are expecting that the outcome will be the same as the recent segwit2x last August. So if the hardfork will no longer happen, we don't also know what will make the value of Bitcoin to be more expensive. Since there's no assurance that the rate of increase at this moment will be continuous.