For 2020 and Beyond Merriam-Webster dictionary defines blockchain as a digital database containing information (such as records of financial transactions) that can be simultaneously used and shared within a large decentralized, publicly accessible network. In this article, the author predicts blockchain trends and its impacts of the accounting profession. With a new year comes changes across multiple facets of the accounting vertical, and there has arguably been no trend and tool that has dominated the accounting conversation more than blockchain technology and its applications. Since its launch from obscurity to the mainstream business and accounting conversation, blockchain and its applications—including…