One barrier to the adoption of Bitcoin that continues to emerge is the simple one of ambiguity in regulatory terms. Whilst the average user may not be overly worried about owning a small stash of the cryptocurrency, perhaps as a small speculative bet, the scale at which a company may engage Bitcoin alters the legal framework of owning it significantly. This is, surely, one reason why larger corporations have tended to adopt the blockchain as their favoured term when discussing what the underlying protocol beneath Bitcoin is. After all, the blockchain was invented explicitly to support a form of currency, Bitcoin, and it emerges from a cypherpunk tradition, a kind of blend of libertarian ideals and cryptography, that had always sought precisely a way to circumvent government regulation. With that in mind it is perhaps safer to talk about the potential of blockchain technology as a means of establishing a little distance from the roguish cryptocurrency.