Holochain Examined

What is Holochain?

Well let’s start by stating what it isn’t – it isn’t a blockchain.

However, Holochain shares many of the qualities or attributes of a blockchain:

There’s a ledger (but more than one).It’s decentralized and therefore beyond the control of a centralized authority.Validation is possible.Consensus can be reached between nodes on the network but it’s not global.There is no global consensus algorithm as modeled in blockchain (or rather there’s a very lightweight version – A Digital Hashing Table) making Holochain scalable, secure, and energy efficient.A critical component of global consensus with blockchain – the timestamp is unnecessary on Holochain.Its primary purpose is to

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