People tend to use the word blockchain as a near synonym for cryptocurrency, but even as the article in this thread shows, it’s not the only application for it.

People tend to use the word blockchain as a near synonym for cryptocurrency, but even as the article in this thread shows, it’s not the only application for it. A blockchain is just a type of data structure, very similar to a linked list, with _some_ additional integrity features. A lot of the pointless debate and highly opinionated grandstanding that takes place around blockchain is centred around misuse of the word. As far as data structures go, it’s a perfectly reasonable one, and has plenty of uses outside of cryptocurrency. Sure it’s a buzzword, but politicising the use of a particular data structure seems just as pointless as any other kind of dogmatic evangelism to me.