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Stablecoins for Skeptics
The last crazy idea from cryptoland may be crazy enough to work
 • Alvaro Duran
Ledgers of Catan
The future of accounting is commodity accounting.
 • Alvaro Duran
Why Low Cardinality Accounts Are A Ledger's Bottleneck
You can build a ledger that’s blazingly fast with a slow programming language.
 • Alvaro Duran
TigerBeetle's Stablecoin Mistake
Is there such a thing as "the ultimate fintech database"?
 • Alvaro Duran
Why Don't You Use Generics in Ledgers?
It's not you; it's that DRY and KISS are misguided.
 • Alvaro Duran
Money as Metadata
What happens when we ignore the belief that all money is interchangeable?
 • Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part III: Time
I find Feynman’s quote that “nobody understands quantum mechanics” a bit silly.
 • Alvaro Duran
Raft Consensus in 2,000 words
Understanding the Understandable Consensus Protocol
 • Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets to Ledgers, Part II: Fault-tolerance
Paxos is Not-Invented-Here consensus. That's why Raft is succeeding.
 • Alvaro Duran
From Stock Markets To Ledgers, Part I: Fairness
Why fairness, not speed, is the ultimate validation of stock markets
 • Alvaro Duran
How To Prevent Cache Stampedes
Think cache invalidation and naming things are hard?
 • Alvaro Duran
CQRS Is Just Balances And Records
Ledgers are hard because you're forced to separate reads from writes
 • Alvaro Duran
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