Monero - good security and community support
Ethereum - seems to have strong support
Factom - fairly new had a strong start this year
Ripple - 3rd largest market cap just behind Ethereum
Dodge, MaidSafe, NXT, BitShares, Dash and etc
So out of all the competing altcoins which ones do you guys think has the greatest potential this year, and also which one in the long term?
None of the above. Especially the ludicrous 'scripts on a blockchain' type coins that absolutely cannot scale with present or reasonably forseable future.
Ripple may break out as a contender for a Paypal type offering but it is not a distributed decentralised system so doesn't really count in this context.
What do you guys see for the future of Bitcoin and do you think Bitcoin has a likely possibility of being replaced by one of the altcoins mentioned above?
The only future I see for Bitcoin is if they scale the transaction processing infrastructure AND go POS - otherwise it's future is effectively as a centralised store of wealth only.
I see POS coins generally doing very well by the end of 2016 with at least 5 in the top 10. Some may be new with compelling new features and possibilities.