K is not used for thousand just because everyone does. It is used for thousand, because the K stands for kilo, which literally means thousand. Kilometer (km) is thousand meters (m), kilogram (kg) is thousand grams (g).
Doesn't anybody of you seriously know this? It's like, pre-math people omg
OnTopic: Judging by the speed BL is growing atm, I doubt we'd reach 200k in 2014, that'd mean doubling the current amount and still not being there. Very unlikely to happen.