This has great implications for blockchain. The interferometer is basically a blockchain at it's core. The trust circle it generates enables physicist to investigate bigger and bigger beams. Very excited!
There's so much hype about blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs, that it is kind of surprising that the tech (or a person) hasn't been awarded a prestigious award that it's not really qualified for.
I guess there is still the one for economics that isn't really a Nobel prize but has a different name.
Smart contracts provide the necessary certainty that comes with binding and unchangeable code, even if it hasn't had the opportunity to be audited for correctness. If some unfortunate Nobel prize winners don't see the full value of their smart contracts, due to ethereum gas, any issues will always be fixed in the smart contracts for subsequent winners. Open Source Blockchains have been shown to be double blind statistical anomalies that always get fixed sooner or later.