Bitcoin does have the potential to become larger than it is today. When other altcoins have the power to increase their rates. But bitcoin will still be the best cryptocurrency, market and also the demand that many of the users will make bitcoin into world economic power.
Agree. Even though Bitcoin has its issues, I'm confident that it will survive and evolve for many years to come. Since this has been the year of Bitcoin, people has seen it as a serious investment to grow their wealth over the long term.
The original cryptocurrency has a solid community and development team that are always addressing its issues to make it stronger each day. While the Bitcoin community is not unified yet, in terms of adding further updates to the protocol such as proposed scalability issues, I'm sure that consensus would be reached somehow the easy way or the hard way.
As for altcoins, they're pretty unstable sometimes and tend to have constant changes in price over time. Only a few have been able to remain solid on the markets like Ethereum. This last one is close to reaching Bitcoin's market cap. It would be interesting to see what will happen with both of these cryptocurrencies over the year and beyond. Just my opinion.