“The back office in financial services is finally sexy again,” says Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation. It’s not often you hear “back office” and “sexy” in the same sentence, and it may never happen again. But the changes coming to how corporations move stocks and deeds, as well as manage digital rights, could amount to a revolution that could rid the world once and for all of the bibles of paperwork created by things like real estate transactions. All this is happening thanks to a technological outgrowth of the digital currency bitcoin called the blockchain.