While the idea works extremely well for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, there are loads of other useful applications of blockchain technology. Here are 15 of them. Image source: Getty Images.

A blockchain is an immutable ledger of transactions linked through digital cryptography and usually shared publicly across multiple computers around the world. Image source: Getty Images.

Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images A block is the fundamental unit of a blockchain that contains a set of validated transactions and cryptographic links to previous blocks, forming an immutable record in ...

A blockchain consists of a series of blocks ... uses neural networks to analyze large datasets; it excels in image recognition, natural language processing and speech synthesis.