You may never use bitcoin, but there’s a decent chance that you’ll eventually benefit from the technology underlying the virtual currency.
The designers of bitcoin didn’t just create a new kind of money. They essentially created a way of transmitting, recording and verifying information about ownership over the Internet. That system, called the blockchain, is in some ways comparable to the protocols used to send Web pages or email messages and could have similarly wide-ranging implications with the potential to impact everything from real estate transactions to voting.
http://www.sunnewsjournal.com/uncategorized/tech-underlying-bitcoin-could-take-off-even-if-currency-doesnt/6909/
