{"id":6665,"date":"2020-01-17T09:29:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T09:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa-front.dev.techhub.cloud\/blog\/?page_id=2828"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:43:42","slug":"what-is-a-distributed-ledger","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/paybis.com\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-a-distributed-ledger\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The term \u201cdistributed ledger\u201d is often heard when talking about blockchain technology. But what exactly does it stand for and what can we learn from it?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is a distributed ledger?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A distributed ledger is a database held and updated independently by each participant (or node) in a large network.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the context of cryptocurrency, this distributed ledger is also known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/paybis.com\/blog\/glossary\/what-is-blockchain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blockchain<\/a>. The participants of the Bitcoin network (also known as nodes) download a copy of the ledger on their device and confirm transactions independently to reach a common conclusion. This common conclusion is more commonly known as consensus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once consensus is reached, the blockchain updates automatically, and all participating nodes (computers of Bitcoin miners) maintain the same copy of the ledger.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This system revolutionizes record keeping, creating many new opportunities for a more decentralized world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How were distributed ledgers used in the past?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It may come to no surprise that its ledgers were always controlled by third parties and, thus, never decentralized and distributed across different nodes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The digitization of ledgers started in the 1980s, with the rise of personal computers in office environments. By 1990, the vast majority of ledgers were digital in nature, eliminating bulky paperwork and making updates a lot easier than before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the digitization of paper records, however, updating ledger was a very time-consuming job and often done through manual data entry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A distributed ledger is a database held and updated independently by each participant (or node) in a large network.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","glossary_letter":[283],"glossary_term":[277,281],"class_list":["post-6665","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is a Distributed Ledger? A Look in its Usability - Paybis Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What is a distributed ledger? 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