with this kind of competition I could revise the potential of 2017 for Monero to a little more bullish behavior.
+1. ETH (and derivatives) have a hard year ahead of them hardening their use cases and coming to the realisation that Turing completeness on what amounts to a distributed vm is way too vulnerable. A lot of soul searching in that camp for 2017.
Ripple I see as essentially a digital postage stamp. LTC hmmm. Not sure. Bit like Mark Twain this one eg rumours about its death are somewhat exaggerated. Im reading that segwit is coming to ltc soon(tm). Anyhow it may show some innovation and potentially some growth. Plus of course the big C likes it.
So yeah good potential for an exceptional year for xmr it seems. Happy New Year!