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> You always preserve information. This is the principle. Not to suggest that the sum of debits and credits alone is sufficient to that end, but rather to exp
by jorangreef 3y ago
> You always preserve information.
This is the principle.
Not to suggest that the sum of debits and credits alone is sufficient to that end, but rather to explain why it's at least necessary.
> To really preserve information, you'd need the full list of all transactions.
Exactly. And so this is, of course, what TigerBeetle also does (with full durability).
And, at the same time, TigerBeetle doesn't decompose account balances to a single integer, for the reasons given.
Both of these are important.
To be clear, the context for this thread is the latter: Why not decompose account balances to a single positive/negative integer?