Over recent years, cryptocurrency has generated more headlines than any other phenomenon in the world of finance. It has achieved things that no other investment mechanism has ever achieved, in a timescale that is barely believable. And it has resonated with a new generation of Internet-savvy entrepreneurs and consumers, who almost intrinsically understand its particular qualities and advantages.
Yet as important as cryptocurrency has been in liberalizing finance and currency, the most important revolution in this sphere is still to occur. This is due to technology that has always underpinned cryptocurrency, without ever attracting the frenzied attention associated with the express escalation in the value of Bitcoin. The blockchain is the technology that makes cryptocurrency possible. It is an incredible innovation that makes it possible to compile huge registers of transacti