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Things to federate #1

Open michielbdejong opened 3 years ago

michielbdejong commented 3 years ago

When would two bookkeeping systems want to federate?

A bookkeeping system (node) should never have to trust another node for keeping records. Yet you also don't want the two copies of a document to diverge. So world ledger gossip is a good model.

A purchase goes through a number of stages, which should probably be defined to make them interoperable between bookkeeping systems: