distributed ledger en · NOUN
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A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.
Another distributed ledger platform, called Ethereum, works off the same technology that Bitcoin does, but it is run as an open-source software project, meaning the software code is freely available for anyone to work on.
2016 April 6, Quentin Hardy, “Ripple Aims to Put Every Transaction on One Ledger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:As mentioned, a blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions implemented as data batched into blocks that use cryptographic validation to link the blocks together.
2018, Joseph J. Bambara et al., Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 6:
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Translations (3)
fr registre partagé (consensus) · cmn 分散式賬本 /分散式账本 (consensus) · fi hajautettu tilikirja (consensus)