Blockchain is used by crypto's. Not an invention from crypto's. Blockchain existed already before BTC. Why do people always think that BTC is going to become important as they "invented" blockchain? Which they did NOT. BTC needs blockchain. Blockchain does not need BTC. I know that AXA used blockchain already before BTC existed. And there are surely other companies who used it already too.
"...Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups." Further work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta. They wanted to implement a system wherein document timestamps could not be tampered with. In 1992, Haber, Stornetta, and Dave Bayer incorporated Merkle trees into the design, which improved its efficiency by allowing several document certificates to be collected into one block. Under their company Surety, their document certificate hashes have been published in The New York Times every week since 1995. The first decentralized blockchain was conceptualized by a person (or group of people) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. Nakamoto improved the design in an important way using a Hashcash-like method to timestamp blocks without requiring them to be signed by a trusted party and introducing a difficulty parameter to stabilize the rate at which blocks are added to the chain. The design was implemented the following year by Nakamoto as a core component of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, where it serves as the public ledger for all transactions on the network. In August 2014, the bitcoin blockchain file size, containing records of all transactions that have occurred on the network, reached 20 GB (gigabytes). In January 2015, the size had grown to almost 30 GB, and from January 2016 to January 2017, the bitcoin blockchain grew from 50 GB to 100 GB in size. The ledger size had exceeded 200 GB by early 2020. The words block and chain were used separately in Satoshi Nakamoto's original paper, but were eventually popularized as a single word, blockchain, by 2016..." I dunno'. It seems, based on the above from Wikipedia, that the idea of a blockchain was first utilized by bitcoin. Can you provide evidence to the contrary?
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You just confirmed that blockchain was INVENTED in 1982 with a second version in 1992. So blockchain existed BEFORE BTC existed. Satoshi improved it maybe, but he did not invent it. AXA uses blockchain technology but they don't need BTC at all to use the blockchain technology in some of their applications. BTC cannot exist without blockchain technology. Just google it and you will find conrmation. So my 2 statements are correct.
This is the statement I was questioning, and if you had evidence confirming it... "...I know that AXA used blockchain already before BTC existed..."