Distributed Ledger
By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020
Ledgers whose data is stored and synced across a network of nodes. A distributed ledger is not limited to cryptocurrency (transactional data) and can store many other kinds of data. It can also be set up to be permission and private.
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