Explaining Blockchain To A Ten Year Old/Industry Awards Should Be More Rewarding

"A blockchain is a distributed ledger database that maintains a continuously-growing list of transactions in the form of ordered records called blocks."  -Wikipedia "If you can't explain it to a 10 year old, you don't know it yourself"  – Albert Einstein (attributed, but disputed) Get ready for this. It's spring 2019 and in some quarters the season augurs the air cargo industry awards time of year. There are awards for everything, from Company of the Year to Person of the Year, from Most Influential to Lifetime Service.  The awards will be handed out left and right by trade shows, industry organizations, and publications alike.