What are some of the bitcoin spaces that you see as especially promising in the next year? What about in the next three years?
I am pretty confident with 7 things for the next 3 years:
- decentralized prediction markets (Augur, Truthcoin, Gnosis). Fresh air for bets, derivatives and almost everything
- market-pegged derivative contracts (BitShares like BitUSD, Maker). Value of fiat with crypto properties. Boom for payments and banks
- decentralized organizations (on blockchain self-governance aka Graphene, Dash, Boardroom). Autonomous software instead of white collars
- independent from devs ingame and VR economies and digital assets. That is going to be really huge
- decentralized storage is the thing. Next year we'll see that works or not. If works it will be 3x cheaper than Google Drive and Dropbox.
- smart-contracts enabled private chains as alternative for current soup of IT systems for any kind of organizations
- autonomous robotics. Slockit is the first bird. But a concept is powerful case for a zoo of embedded systems:
https://www.hackster.io/platforms
Thus Ethereum, SAFE Network and BitShares as platforms are really excite me if Bitcoins sidechain clones (aka Rootstock) somehow won't beat them. Architecturally they have a lot of limitations so we'll see.
I don't give any opinions for 1 year time frame as my focus is long-term investments. Thanks for your question!