Not so long ago, there was an almost constant flow of stories on digital currency's many use cases, its acceptance by notable merchants and its role in dark web payments, but like the tales of Silk Road's rise or the "Bitcoin Millionaires", those days seem to have passed.
The industry, as well as those seeking to help it grow, are increasingly interested not in bitcoin's use in payments, but in its underlying technology, the blockchain, a distributed ledger that provides real-time insight into asset ownership in the $5.6bn bitcoin market.
http://www.coindesk.com/reached-peak-blockchain-hype/
