A big hunk of gold so you can tell stories like: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/10/10/...

I was expecting the amazing story of Niels Bohr dissolving Nobel prize medals in acid to hide them from the Nazis: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/disso...

Me too, but I realize there are more things necessary to that story that we'd really rather not introduce for the sake of the story...

That is a good story!

Beyond the hunk of gold, they could also have the king of Sweden hand you the hunk of gold. I think that's a good touch.

Why gold when we have BitCoin? :)

Well a Nobel prize is awarded for the significance of the breakthrough, and the Turing award is more for the significance of the person. I think it would be good to have an award in computer science that celebrated and validated breakthroughs (though it doesn't have to be the Turing award).

Prestige, which you can only partially buy.

Absolutely prestige.

If one of the wealthiest people in the world won a Nobel prize, nobody would say "billionaire and $1M prize winner, et cetera".

Call it a Nobel prize.

Well, it worked for the economists, more or less.

The "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" is almost invariably called the "Nobel Prize in Economics", even though it's a separate deal that didn't exist until 1969.