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Blockchains, or ‘distributed ledgers’, are part of a new area of technology that is generating a lot of interest. They have the potential to become an important component of our global data infrastructure. In this report, we present an overview of Blockchain technology and issues that come with it, for a non-technical audience who seek to understand the potential of distributed ledgers and blockchains in a commercial or policy context. We focus on non-financial use cases, both to avoid duplication of other work and to explore the wider impact of the technology.