distributed ledger

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distributed ledger

noun distributed ledgers

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.
Similar: shared ledger, ledger

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noun consensus

中文	分散式賬本 /分散式账本 fēnsànshì zhàngběn
Français	registre partagé

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@misc{distributed_ledger_2026,
  title = {distributed ledger},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/distributed%20ledger},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}