It's been almost a decade since bitcoin and its underlying blockchain distributed ledger technology were born, planting the seed for the cryptocurrency mania that began in 2017. Blockchain allows for transactions to be recorded without a central trusted authority. Any process that involves many parties and middlemen could potentially be made more efficient. Payments is what bitcoin aims to solve, but that's just one of many possible applications.
Like any exciting technology, the hype is probably out ahead of what blockchain can realistically accomplish. Who could have guessed that there would be a mania around a type of database? But here we are.
