Bitcoin, not Blockchain

The Economist is having the Blockchain (the technology that underpins Bitcoin) in the cover of its weekly issue.

Cover for the October 31st — November 6th 2015 issue

Inside, the article “The trust machine”.

Its thesis, its main idea, is that:

The real innovation is not the digital coins themselves, but the trust machine that mints them — and which promises much more besides.

We should focus -they say- on these “shared databases”. The Blockchain is just one of them, being Bitcoin its “product”. It is not a new idea.

They, you, can focus on whatever you want, but the real change will not come from someone’s private or semi-private (or also completely public, we already tried altcoins) “shared database”, but from THE “shared database”, THE Blockchain, (THE) Bitcoin.

No better way to reason why than as put by Reddit user “americanpegasus”: