distributed ledger

English

Noun

distributed ledger (plural distributed ledgers)

1. A consensus of replicated, shared, and synchronized digital data geographically spread across multiple locations.

   Synonyms: shared ledger, ledger

   • 2016 April 6, Quentin Hardy, “Ripple Aims to Put Every Transaction on One Ledger”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2018, Joseph J. Bambara et al., Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 6:

     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.

Translations

consensus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分散式賬本／分散式账本 (fēnsànshì zhàngběn)

• Finnish: hajautettu tilikirja
• French: registre partagé (fr) m

Further reading

• distributed ledger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia