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distributed ledgers

distributed ledgers is the plural of distributed ledger.

Meaning of distributed ledger

Noun

distributed ledger (plural distributed ledgers)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    shared ledger, ledger

Questions about distributed ledgers

What is distributed ledgers the plural of?
Distributed ledgers is the plural of distributed ledger.

Words near distributed ledgers in the dictionary

  1. distributed
  2. distributed computing
  3. distributed hash table
  4. distributed hash tables
  5. distributed ledger
  6. distributed ledgers
  7. distributed ray tracing
  8. distributedly
  9. distributedness
  10. distributee
  11. distributees

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