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by WorldMaker 2432 days ago
That is the kind of content I was hoping for in this article. The review of double-entry accounting is nice and all, but the scale details would have been nice beyond hand-waving "we left it to Spanner, and so we followed Spanner's rules".

Similarly a quibble about the "immutable" in the headline given that they are still using a mutable field at the book level for balances to make them easier to query. I guess I was hoping they'd have solved a nicer merkle tree balancer or something for balances. Not that I was hoping for a "blockchain" solution, but something smarter than blockchain for "centralized" trust environments like Square.