I'm not even kidding guys. It has become clear that Bitcoin is entering the mass market now, though still just at the very start of it. While the 11x in the past 11 months has been astounding, this is just the beginning.
We will see 6 figures before 2020. Bitcoin user adoption is gonna grow from a couple dozen million now to hundreds of millions the next two years. Institutional investment in Bitcoin is gonna grow from basically non-existent now to a major new asset class for wall street in the next two years. $100k in two years might actually be a low prediction.
Im hoping that the lightning network comes by late 2018, or at least that's what Matt Corallo aka TheBlueMatt on twitter has guesstimated. If LN can come and they can get it done right, then we can finally "bank the unbanked" and everyone will be able to transact in the global bitcoin economy, fast and cheap. Store of value + fast velocity transactions all on the same currency would easily make it go several trillion dollars up on the marketcap, surpassing gold. Only at $1Trillion, i think the price would be sitting around $80,000, considering the available supply et al.
We have definitely been surprised with the $10k correction becoming true, and im sure we will be surprised again rather soon. The future is brighter than ever for bitcoin now that we don't have the hardfork trolls anymore. Don't fall for the FUD, specially when they come from legacy banking CEO dinosaurs.