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the original social network — everyone's connected by who owes whom.
means a record of financial transactions, organized so debits and credits always balance to zero.
from from old english 'leggen,' to lay down — a book that lies flat on a desk, waiting for merchants to lay down their numbers; double-entry bookkeeping was formalized by luca pacioli in 1494, turning scattered scribbles into a system.
double-entry ruleevery transaction hits two accounts, always
pacioli's day jobhe was mostly a mathematician, not accountant
blockchain claimjust a ledger nobody can quietly edit
oldest knownmesopotamian clay tablets tracked grain 5000 years ago