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Stripe strongly encourages writing for its own sake. So much so that they run their own press. I suspect the intended audience is whoever is curious for a medium depth primer in what a ledger looks like for a company handling billions of transactions. As someone in payment tech I found it very interesting.
Hello! I am the author. Thank you for the comment. While Stripe does love to write, I think our core premise here was that being able to reason mathematically about independent distributed systems was a unique application of a ledger. Likewise, we think the data quality offering is a unique extension since it gives us tools to make improvements to our systems over time.
Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
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#22Re: Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
#23How is Stripe doing? There seems to be less HN front page news about Stripe these days.
However, they still have decent numbers to show their investors.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stripe strongly encourages writing for its own sake. So much so that they run their own press. I suspect the intended audience is whoever is curious for a medium depth primer in what a ledger looks like for a company handling billions of transactions. As someone in payment tech I found it very interesting.
Hello! I am the author. Thank you for the comment. While Stripe does love to write, I think our core premise here was that being able to reason mathematically about independent distributed systems was a unique application of a ledger. Likewise, we think the data quality offering is a unique extension since it gives us tools to make improvements to our systems over time.
Re: Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
#25Or just use a blockchain for settlement
What would blockchain possibly be helpful with here?
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#26For those curious, YC funded an open source financial ledger company in S21: https://github.com/formancehq/stack
Re: Ledger: Stripe's system for tracking and validating money movement
#27For those curious, YC funded an open source financial ledger company in S21: https://github.com/formancehq/stack
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hello! I am the author. Thank you for the comment. While Stripe does love to write, I think our core premise here was that being able to reason mathematically about independent distributed systems was a unique application of a ledger. Likewise, we think the data quality offering is a unique extension since it gives us tools to make improvements to our systems over time.
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Is 'being able to reason' an 'application of a' ?
It looks... off