Blockchain and Bitcoin are two separate things. Blockchain is just a ledger which is, "for the most part", cryptographically impossible to change past entries. No real new inventions here other than chaining current entries to past entries.

I hear people say, "we need blockchain to secure our elections". How is blockchain going to secure our elections? It's just a ledger. If a mistake is made in the numbers reported, additions/subtractions have to be appended to correct. Election fraud can still happen.

I've explained to newbies, that bitcoin is a METHOD of moving wealth, just as email is a method to move messages. What is "email" worth? Can you do without it now in your daily life? Who owns "the email?" Nobody?! If aliens took away your email system, what would we pay to get it back?

Correct. The internets power hasn’t fully been harnessed as yet. Blockchain will change that.

Blockchain has better uses than just currency. Imagine holding all your own records on blockchain. Land deeds, vehicle deeds, birth certificates, marriage contracts, business contracts bank records, all of it. Not the local or federal government. Then if you need proof of date or time you have a forensically accurate proof. If the government wants a record they can get a warrant and PAY you for the record. They wouldnt be able to access it unless you gave ot to them. All patents held private on blockchain. If you could prove you were first a court would find for you. The ultimate in 4th amendment security in your papers.