There are certainly nation states that are looking for ways to 1) prevent their satellites colliding with one another (https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/850.pdf) and 2) being able to do forms of computation that might be risky to do on earth for national security reasons.

If Robert Pike is on your list, maybe Graydon Hoare should be 5th place!

Hi, sorry for missing this. I'm usually a lurker on HN. Right now, it's just a general purpose VM that does the basics of what anyone would expect any VM to do. We are currently in the midst of implementing the MPC specific aspects to the VM, namely distributed computation and allowing anyone to plug in any MPC protocol they want as long as it conforms to our set of interfaces. We will be providing MPC protocols that we think are worthwhile for use cases that we know have users and as such, if you aren't a cryptographer but have a sense of where you want to use MPC, you can just use our VM and associated APIs without having to fiddle too much with the actual cryptography.