2017 is going to be the infrastructure and legal year! You have to look at in from two perspectives, both public and government ₁, then try to imagine a scenario, that we can move as quickly and as painlessly as possible to a crash, FIAT reset, then a new global financial system. We need comms, roads, boats, rail, plumbing, etc 1st. This is where we are at!

• In the bitcoin space, I see a continued fight between competing interests in the control of the future of bitcoin.  Namely SegWit, Unlimited, XT, and ByzCoin ₂.  VISA handles 2K tx/sec on average and up to 56K tx/sec during peaks, so long term we are fucked unless the devs can figure this shit out while at the same time provocateurs are trying to kill it. That being said bitcoin is that basis for all our portfolios and should take off to the next level which should be around 10K per coin. When the client wars are over, we should see another level and that is the one all the early adopters like myself are hoping for, the retirement climb right in the middle of the chaos that will ensue as the world gives birth to a new economic order.
      
• In the dApp space my bet is on Factom and Stratis in 2017 with Ethereum being the last to take off. Factom has first mover advantage and can solve problems. They will only be limited by the limited amount of developers that can actually implement their products. Stratis - will make it easier for large companies with in house teams to start to cut their teeth on their own apps. .Net and #C are huge and no one wants to read another book or learn another language and that very fact is why they will kick ass, developers are lazy. WINGS could rival etherium at some point, I think they might have a better talent pool from the Eastern Blocks and Russia? Only because the do not have a Silicon valley with the same caliber of developers. So that means their best and brightest are focused on the blockchain as a means of wealth creation for their region and the world. That would be like Google's software might being thrown behind crypto and nothing else? If they did that, you'd better watch out!
      
• In the privacy space I am going with Dash and Komodo? Even though I own monero I like the Dash community much better, it's a tomato/tamato thing? Dash will be the first complete platform in that space and with their governance model, it will be stable without all the in-fighting at bitcoin. They just get shit done! Komodo has a fully decentralized solution and an entire ecosystem that can be one stop shopping. If you were a newbie and your first introduction was these guys, I see no reason in the future to every need anything else outside the SuperNet world that is powered by Komodo.  
      
• In the privacy space I am going with Dash and Komodo? Even though I own monero I like the Dash community much better, it's a tomato tamato thing? Dash will be the first with a complete platform and supporting community; with with their governance model it is stable without all the in fighting in the BTC development community. Komodo has a fully decentralized solution and an entire ecosystem that can be one stop shopping. As a new consumer, I see no reason in the future to every need anything else outside the SuperNet world that is powered by Komodo.
      
• The EU, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Latin America will grab ahold to some ecosystem and/or make it their own. Asia for example has AntShares and NEM which have the technology to rival anything the west can create. They own bitcoin as well, but I do not see them using someone else's platform as the predominant one, their societies are too closed. AntShares may be owned by Jack Ma and NEM rivals bitcoin. I suspect asian bitcoin experts are going to grow their own and I think at this point AntShares and NEM are in the right position at least from the outsider's point of view. India, Africa, and Latin America may or may not make their own. Think about it this way. Maybe another way of looking at it is, Russia and China are the bricks essentially. So I think they are going to go their own way from the ground up, at some point, at least it seems that way?
      

At this point, I am very focused on infrastructure plays. The technology that makes other technology work. We have to build the software that will power the new financial order. My advice is is look for investments that get you in on the ground floor of infrastructure.
1) https://blog.chain.com/why-central-banks-will-issue-digital-currency-5fd9c1d3d8a2#.qdieaz2bl
2) ByzCoin