quartz/content/notes/holochain.md

title	tags
holochain"

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.