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title: holochain"
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link: https://www.holochain.org/

Open source framework for creating p2p apps.

Possible downsides of peer to peer apps
- not great with synchronisation
- large app size
- requires wifi or cell coverage


# Whitepaper

link: https://github.com/holochain/holochain-proto/blob/whitepaper/holochain.pdf

Hashing algorithms and public key encryption provided a frameork for distributed systems using hash-chains. There are two main uses of these: agent centric systems like [[git]] and data-centric systems like [[ethereum]] and [[bitcoin]].

Holochain aims to fix scalability issues of blockchain by addressing the data-centric assumptions of the blockchain approach.