Every now and then the word “blockchain” appears somewhere in our daily life. It’s is almost always associated with getting fabulously rich, staggeringly poor or in some James Bond style theft of a large sum of money, a person with a Russian sounding last name hiding out in a 2nd world country.

Almost seven years ago, during the later hours of a Friday afternoon, I was wrapping up some paperwork and feeling pretty good about the progress of the week. My wife and I had a sitter lined up for the evening, and I was looking forward to date night with dinner and a ballgame.