[johnbellone]

I was thinking the same but you were able to articulate it much better!

This is interesting enough for me to dig into and read the code, but what am I going to use this for? Now if transactions were blocks in a single database I could see more use for this.

Maybe it's too early and too little coffee for me to have a brilliant thought!

[runeks]

Shameless plug: I've tried to articulate what Bitcoin is, and hence why the blockchain data structure was invented, in this article (hint: it's all related to proof-of-work)[1].

I think a lot of people see that 1) Bitcoin uses a blockchain and 2) Bitcoin creates digital money seemingly out of nowhere, and feel fascinated with the technology without being able to explain exactly why. So we're left with a lot of people using blockchains without really understanding the reasoning behind it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14553146