Business people will tell you “the log” is nothing more than accounting journal entries that is the life blood of enterprises everywhere. You have a chain of do

Business people will tell you “the log” is nothing more than accounting journal entries that is the life blood of enterprises everywhere. You have a chain of donut shops that transmit their sales and expenses nightly to the corporate HQ? That is the log. The log is the system of record. “State” is an ephemeral representation of the log.