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The book where every dollar confesses and nothing gets forgotten.
means A book or digital record in which financial transactions are systematically entered and tallied.
from From Middle English 'leggen,' to lay or lie — a cousin of modern 'lay.' The ledger was originally the large book that lay permanently in one place, too weighty and important to be carried about, kept open on a desk or lectern where every account could be set down and settled.
- ancient roots
- Babylonians kept clay-tablet ledgers 5,000 years ago
- double-entry
- Every transaction recorded twice to catch lies
- renaissance fame
- A monk's 1494 textbook taught Europe accounting
- blockchain heir
- Bitcoin is just a ledger nobody can erase
- name origin
- From a book that lay permanently on the desk
for instance
general ledger — accounting record used by all companies since the 15th century to track all debits and credits
distributed ledger technology — blockchain system like bitcoin that maintains identical copies across thousands of nodes since 2009