The technology is actually not that hard to understand, at least at a high level, it's getting through the "people talking about it" down to what is actually be

The technology is actually not that hard to understand, at least at a high level, it's getting through the "people talking about it" down to what is actually being done with the technology and why it needs to be a "distributed ledger". Often it doesn't and understanding that disconnect seems to often be the hard part.