Hacker Noon October 3, 2019
Peter Jobes

For a mechanical entity that nobody was aware of just three years ago, blockchain has certainly come a long way. Bitcoin’s rise in popularity turned the blockchain technology that drives it firmly into the limelight, but what does the future hold for this brave new world?

(Google Trends shows that blockchain gained widespread popularity during Bitcoin’s surge in value)

Before we sink our teeth into how the next ten years will go for blockchain, let’s take a closer look at what it actually is – and why it’s caused such a buzz in recent years.

A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger consisting of interlinked ‘blocks.’ Each block stores information that cannot be retroactively tampered with or deleted....

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