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How to Explain Accounting To Payments Engineers
The limitations of the use of UML-like diagrams to model financial transactions
Mar 11
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Alvaro Duran
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Why Ledgers Must be Immutable
Ledgers are a “get your shit together” tool.
Mar 4
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Alvaro Duran
2
Accounting For Multi-Currency Ledgers
How to break the rules of money and get away with it
Feb 25
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Alvaro Duran
2
Stablecoins for Skeptics
The last crazy idea from cryptoland may be crazy enough to work
Feb 11
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Alvaro Duran
Ledgers of Catan
The future of accounting is commodity accounting.
Feb 4
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Alvaro Duran
2
Why Low Cardinality Accounts Are A Ledger's Bottleneck
You can build a ledger that’s blazingly fast with a slow programming language.
Jan 28
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Alvaro Duran
2
TigerBeetle's Stablecoin Mistake
Is there such a thing as "the ultimate fintech database"?
Jan 21
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Alvaro Duran
1
Why Don't You Use Generics in Ledgers?
It's not you; it's that DRY and KISS are misguided.
Jan 14
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Alvaro Duran
3
Money as Metadata
What happens when we ignore the belief that all money is interchangeable?
Jan 7
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Alvaro Duran
4
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part III: Time
I find Feynman’s quote that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” a bit silly.
Nov 19, 2025
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Alvaro Duran
1
Raft Consensus in 2,000 words
Understanding the Understandable Consensus Protocol
Nov 12, 2025
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Alvaro Duran
2
From Stock Markets to Ledgers, Part II: Fault-tolerance
Paxos is Not-Invented-Here consensus. That's why Raft is succeeding.
Nov 5, 2025
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Alvaro Duran
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