Bitcoin is an application built on top of blockchain technology. Blockchain, therefore, is much more important than Bitcoin or any other cryptographic currency idea.  The insurance industry is interested in blockchain for other potential applications.  Applications that will provided consensus, provenance, immutability and finality.  Those are the benefits blockchain delivers.  New distributed applications (dapps) built on top of blockchain or utlizing the technology is what Harvard is excited about.

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