"Back then, December, price was at a $20,000 all-time high. I predicted for 2018, we're going to see $5,000 and $60,000. So $5,000, weve pretty much hit it, so let's see if we can do the $60,000. I'm still quite confident." by TEN-X Co Founder ( in article :
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tenx-co-founder-still-quite-confident-bitcoin-can-hit-60-000-this-year )
It is possible for bitcoin to reach the speculated price if it rose to 15,000$ in the start of September. The impact of that statement is not definite because a co-founder of a project would not affect the price of bitcoin at all.
A lot has change and we are not in the bullish trend right now so its going to be very difficult to even hit $10K.
Not being in a bullish trend doesn't mean that it would be very difficult to hit 10,000$. In fact, it is possible that we would reach it sooner than expected and the chance of it happening is higher when bitcoin has been on a prolonged bearish trend.