Sorry, didn't realize your usage. That said, I think there's a relationship between the "blockchain as application" question and the "bitcoin as economic/polit

Sorry, didn't realize your usage. That said, I think there's a relationship between the "blockchain as application" question and the "bitcoin as economic/political system" question. Without the cryptographic and consensus parts, blockchain is just a ledger and obviously could be more easily. The only advantage that a ledger coming from a blockchain has over a conventional ledger is that you know the blockchain was (probably) obtained with this ongoing voting/consensus protocol and the main impact is you know the result is correct and wasn't imposed by some central authority.