I expect Bitcoin to hit 1600-1800 by the end of the year, then dump for a while before hitting 2000 by February.
Lets see if I am right...
I am also very curious to see it happen too. Hitting 2000 is surely a huge milestone for btc. 2000 means that the total capacity of btc has doubled and more influence btc can give. I believe there will be more services that accept btc as a mode of payment.
We have to wait for all components to support each other's development of bitcoin. If everything has been received and ready with bitcoin then i am sure any miracle can be created by bitcoin. Including significant and unexpected price increases. And all the benefits we can get at that time.
That is right, without any further development needed for bitcoin, price won't increase itself.
We need more improvements right now, the blockchain suffers due to a big traffic sometimes. there are also spam attacks occuring from time to time, which are basically slowing the chain really hard.
Without any solutions such as SegWit or 8 MB blocks, we just won't be able to stay on the price above 1500$ without the signals that it is going down: bitcoin would be simply overvalued in such a case, the asset cannot rise constantly when it has a huge technical backlog.
Give it more time, dont be so greedy about the cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is not a magical asset which increases its price over and over, it has to decrease too.