One area I see as a huge area of growth form alt currency in the shipping industry.

This industry involves the transfer of millions of tonnes of commodities around the world on a daily basis, with many thousands of tonnes per vessel. The infrastucture and logistics are truly global, with an owner perhaps being in Greece, a Charterer maybe in Singapore, the seller of the goods South America and the receiver in Asia.

The transfer of funds between all these parties ( not to mention the services in each port , fuel, supplies etc) must incur great cost and complications.

Perhaps a specific industry currency may be developed which will encompass all the complicated global transactions related to the subject, and perhaps also allow for attachment of the associated documentations pertaining to the cargo in an encrypted form.

2013 saw Stanford University reveal DNA being synthetically coded and used as a memory device to store data ( a robust means it would seem).

What are peoples thoughts on the possibility ( some time in the future) of using an individuals unique DNA signature as their access to accounts, with an interface perhaps able to read and verify the persons biometrics/characteristics against their genome? I'm not talking about some means whereby a dude with a flake of someones dandruff could hack their account, but something much more complex.

And perhaps family genetic lines could be determined to ensure passing down of any asset ( where amicable of course!)

Just a thought.