I attended a blockchain symposium this week. Two days of presentations by researchers, entrepreneurs, and representatives of companies looking at bitcoin in som

I attended a blockchain symposium this week. Two days of presentations by researchers, entrepreneurs, and representatives of companies looking at bitcoin in some way. As well as questions from an audience of people with enough interest to pay to be there. I still have no better idea what the general point is than you. I'm actually wishing that I had been asking "but why blockchain?" at the end of each talk, or more accurately, rephrasing it in to a less dodgeable question. However I'm pretty sure I knew the least about blockchain going in out of everyone there so I was always a little concerned that I was just missing something implicit/obvious.