that was quick delivery. thank you.
keep in mind that the "chain of blocks" that satoshi referred to is just a chain of blocks. one could also say "block chain" and even making it only one word "blockchain" is not a crime. to satoshi and to bitcoinMaxis this chain of blocks is the transaction history of the bitcoin protocol.
a transaction history is needed for the protocol to check if an UTXO is really an UnspendTXO. that is it. it is no technology, and - god forbid - not an invention at all.
just because everyone and there grandma is parroting "blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin" does not make it a technology. it is not. satoshi did not try to find a tech that made lying and cheating impossible. he tried to solve a problem in computer science - the double spend problem and by knitting together a handful of established cryptographic tools he was able to eliminate trust in a special p2p network without central authority. the bitcoin protocol is a pre-set closed system.
no btc token can be taken out of the protocol or added to it. (the ones that are not mined yet are already in the system, but not released yet. the release rate is known and also fixed from the get go.)
since it is a closed system, no "actual" input is necessary nor even possible. if you have keys to UTXO`s the bitcoin protocol let´s you choose how many you wish to send to another address. but that is it. that is no input from "outside", that is just an option to slice the UTXO. since there is no input possible, no one can cheat. everyone agrees on the same ledger, trust is eliminated, and since no owner or central authority is protecting the protocol satoshi set game theoretic rules that make it profitable to sell electric energy to the network in order to protect the network. the protectors get paid in fresh (but pre-set) UTXO sets. it is always more profitable to play with the rules of this closed system than working against it.
all this complicated cryptography, the consensus rules, the UTXO set, etc , etc created a closed system of ledger entries, that no one ever can fuck around with. great, but of what use is such a pre-set protocol that can´t do anything but sending around fractions of its native data entries back and forth?
it is utterly useless. it does not "communicate" or react with the outside world. you can´t use it for anything. only for one thing: a globaly monetary network. since money is the most important economic good and tool this very very special technology with only one use case "cant be fucked around with/manipulated or stopped" has such an impact.
lots of folks were hit by the impact - wtf - the dirty cheating lying monster that we call internet, that we all know, cannot be trusted one second, gave birth to a technology where no one can cheat??? how the fuck does this work? and when others started explaining: look, there is this chain of blocks... blockchain became a buzzword and then came the banks with the "blockchain-not-bitcoin" narrative.
blockchain does not magically enforce honesty in any way. it cant. as soon as you have data entries made by humans, those humans can lie or cheat and the software will never be able to tell because the real world is not the same as the digital realm. only bitcointechnology is able to connect both worlds.
after several years of this nonsense no other "blockchain" is used to solve any real world problem. blockchain is semantic wasteland as nic carter put it. it is nothing. an communication error. in the same way that shitcoins are all scams by default since they are just digital tokens that can represent something but cannot enforce anything in a trustless manner as long as they have companies that issue them or control them. no shitcoin is decentralized. they are all pyrit. the only viable thing to represent is money. and the digital money token problem is solved by the bitcoin protocol.
blockchains/shitcoins are often said to enhance/proof/establish property rights/ownership of whatever. but they cannot. you cannot tie real world stuff into the digital realm in a trustless but enforcable manner. the bitcoin protocol can do this but only with pre-set tokens and that invention is already done and running and that is why it is worth almost a trillion USD.
that is some pretty hardcore explanation and no wonder its been 10 years and not a single practical use of blockchain exist... and every other so called "block-chain" idea first brings their own
token for money sucking and then some shit revolving around "block + chains".
Trust me after my little R&D I intentionally did not use the word "technology" for the blockchain but i said "concept", and I still believe it is a concept. Satoshi did bring this concept and that's a Bitcoin or like they way you said
bitcointechnology and if you try to apply this "block chain" concept without bitcoin it will produce nothing.
But oh boy look at books and courses available online for sale... "Blockchain Revaluation", "Blockchain for Business", "Blockchain Financial Services Resolution" you name it, even I saw a training course offered by "IEEE.org" and its funny the image they added in course their description to present a Blockchain
in short bitcoin is the revolution and bitcoin is the technology of the future and its not going anywhere... at least until year
2140.
Google didn't invent the blockchain. Otherwise, a search for "encryption" would deliver tens of thousands of results featuring the term "blockchain", along with some blockchain ads. Internet politics. Shitty as everything political.
Wo wonder search for "Bitcoin" also have only three pages and "total 128 results" only for Bitcoin.... that's even less than blockchain and cryptocurrency.... there is something serious going on with these big tech companies and that's why Bill Gates always speaking against bitcoins... sure enough they will adopt only if they get to control Bitcoin some how.