Looking alee to what we can await by the new decade's end, VC house Andreessen Horowitz predicts that Bitcoin (BTC) is probable to be central to the monetization mechanisms that future online influencers will use.

In its December. 30 vignette of a highly automated future — where nutrient is tailored to an individual's microbiome and lifestyle in a "roboticized kitchen," and VR and avatars are part and parcel of everyday business concern workflows — Andreessen Horowitz writes that by 2030:

"The influencer can attain hundreds of her fans instantaneously. In turn, the fans can get paid instantly for giving this feedback. They can choose to get paid in a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin or Libra, or they can cull to go paid in Influencer Coin."

Andreessen Horowitz sees the part of private digital assets similar its hypothetical "Influencer Coin" as being a fashion for online fans to secure a stake in an influencer'due south ascension popularity — similar to the way start-up employees participate in their startups' growth through equity.

Strategic trends in the roaring 20s

In a less literary take on strategic technology trends for the new decade — yet 1 that overlaps significantly with Andreessen Horowitz in its overall vision —  ComputerWeekly.com has identified blockchain, hyper-automation and artificial intelligence security equally the key drivers of modify.

"In the future, truthful blockchain or 'blockchain complete' will have the potential to transform industries," ComputerWeekly contributor Brian Burke wrote on Jan. 2, further predicting that the engineering science volition be "fully scalable by 2023."

Blockchain together with complementary technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) volition aggrandize the type of participants in decentralized and automated networks, Burke notes.

In the automotive industry, a smart sensor-equipped automobile could be able to negotiate insurance prices straight and automatically with an insurer using blockchain and IoT, for instance.

More broadly, the report points to data privacy measures, increasingly democratized technology and distributed cloud computing every bit key parallel trends to blockchain in the coming decade.

"Dark" times

On the cusp of the new year's day, ZenGo wallet CEO Ouriel Ohayon tweeted his "joke-fashion" 2022 predictions. Swerving between the mock-apocalyptic and the sarcastic, he wrote:

"Bitcoin volition crash to sub-chiliad USD; all hardware wallets will exist hacked; Tron/XRP will become the most important cryptocurrency; Satoshi identity will exist revealed and will be disappointing; Trump will stack sats on twitter; Lightning will have glorious adoption."