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Holochain has been a project simminging in the background of the blockchain space for several years now. The promise has been a panaceaic solution to the performance and scalability issues facing decentralised hosting platforms. It\u2019s an oft heard claim, but, as founder Arthur Brock expounds in this interview, by giving up our insistence on global consensus in favor of discoverable and verifiable local state, a world of options is opened to us. \nThis kind of discussion follows from the Secure Scuttlebutt and Urbit episodes. It raises, and offers answers, to questions of data vs agent based ontologies. But most interesting of all, it forces us to reconsider why we wanted to use a blockchain in the first place.\n\n\n\nArthur Brock from Denver Colorado\nInterested in alternative currencies in 2001\nSelf organising companies are just a form of currency hacking\nDiscovered what a huge leverage point for change currency is\nChange the business incentives and all business will reshape towards those incentives\nThe Future of Money, Bernard Leotard\n2003 alternative currency became main gig\nMetacurrency project 2004\nMet Harris Brown\nCurrencies as more than money - symbol systems that we use to coordinate at scale\nOut of metacurrency project came Ceptr 2006\nInteract/transact with anyone else without intermediary\nRequired a reinvention of most of the communications stack. Modeling on nature - biomimicry\nPrototyped for rewrite of computation, communication, commerce\nTook piece of Ceptr and built Holochain, completed in Go in 2017\nBitcoin neither blindsided nor felt like a culmination of work\nSeemed like a ham handed design\nQuestionably successful\nHas captured a large following\nHas not achieved what Arthur Brock wants to achieve\nNot to dismiss blockchain - if nothing else it has prepared public consciousness and awareness for dealing with these problems.\nBlockchain has altered the discourse\nPulled discourse in a crazy direction\nRecreates unhealthy patterns turbocharged\nDefinitely need new money but need to do it in a manor that does not amplify volatility and wealth concentration\nRecreating old problems won't get us somewhere new\nCore issue is validation, not consensus\nEveryone must use the same validation scheme to participate in consensus [validation is more fundamental than consensus]\nPush for global state is a lazy way of modeling problems\nIn reality there is no global state or time. Only relative state and time.\nHolochain uses an Agent Centric approach rather than a Data Centric approach.\nEach agent has their own chain for an application, only tracking the agents activity.\nGenesis block of each chain includes a hash of the source code of the application.\n\n\nHolochain.org\nHolo.host\nArtbrock.com\nCeptr.org\nMetacurrency.org\n\n#webscale\n#patriciatree