Wall Street's favorite technology set out to disrupt how we transfer money, but may end up changing everything else instead

Bitcoin was created to revolutionize the way we pay for things.
The decentralized control, quick payment processing and blockchain technology Bitcoin championed was intended to disrupt the status quo in payments.
The Bitcoin platform was released in 2009, and was created to give the power of payments to the people using it.
No longer would you have to rely on a bank to verify transactions. The people who use Bitcoin double as the verification method using a technology known as the "blockcha