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by nevi-me 2440 days ago
Shouldn't an accounting database service (specifically, the ledger) be immutable and double-entry in any case?

> To address consistency, we picked a well-established, public-domain, battle-tested approach to modeling financials that enables all of our properties ...

I think doing anything other than double-entry leads to reinventing the wheel. When a ledger system is implemented correctly, the main remaining issue becomes scalability.