"인터넷을 교정하자: 홀로체인(Holochain)은 우리가 상호작용하는 방식을 어떻게 바꾸고자 하는가" (Ouishare, 2018.3.8.)

공유 경제(sharing economy) 저변의 광범위한 소식을 전하는 위셰어(Ouishare) 매거진에서 블록체인의 대안(?)으로 등장한 홀로체인(Holochain)을 소개했다.

출처: Fernanda Marin,
"Fixing the Internet: How Holochain Wants to Chage the Way We Interact", Ouishare, 2018년 3월 8일.

※ 우연히 어제에 이어 두 번째로 홀로체인을 알리게 됐다. 이리 올려놓고, 일주일 내에 발췌 번역이라도 할 수 있기를.

• 어제의 발췌 및 번역: "블록체인과는 전혀 다른 길의 탈중심화를 지향하는 홀로체인(Holochain)"

Holochain is a way of building and running applications using just the devices of the users themselves.

• In a traditional internet web app architecture there is always someone in the middle. You always have a web server or platform. For example, on Facebook, if I want to talk to you, I don’t send a message to you, I send a message to Facebook and then they send it to you. This is now an old story people are familiar with.

• Then blockchain came along and said “Ah! We can get rid of the party in the middle by just putting everyone in the middle”. But the problem [,] it wasn’t just everyone, but everyone wealthy enough and tech savvy to be able to be in the middle: the group of miners that hold on to the records. Blockchain strategy was to come up with one truth at the network level.

• We’re trying to do something different. ( ... ... ) What is truly radically different is the ability for the individuals to be able to change how they are coordinating or extend what they do without having to get everyone in the space to agree to that change.

WHAT IS THE ETHOS OF HOLOCHAIN? We wanted to address one of the inherent problems with the internet. [T]he intent behind the internet is amazing, but it is the architecture that determines what you actually get. The way we think of it [= architecture?] is less as a language and more as a medium to communicate.

• Writing is a medium. Air molecules are a medium that carry sound waves. We call these mediums carriers. What you are able to send through that carrier is what we call a signal. Different carriers have different properties.

• We are trying to create a user-defined carrier, meaning no one else gets to decide whether or not you can communicate in that way.

• Even in sound, the user cannot define his range of perception and interaction. For example, I can be trying to talk to you, but if the person sitting next to you starts screaming, you might not be able to hear me, so other people can drown out the sound and potentially block our communication. Our system would facilitate a line of communication between the two people conversing that is defined only by them, so no more drunken screaming interruption, and of course, no middlemen.

• We built this system so that any two people or five or a million, can communicate and collaborate in the way that works for them, and that others can't stop it. They don't need permission from someone else, they don't need someone else's business model to support it. ( ... ... )

WHAT IS YOUR BUSINESS MODEL? Holochain is just technology. It is a way of building applications. [A]nd no, it doesn't have a business model. We're giving Holochain as a gift.

• You can think of it as a pattern, sort of like writing is a pattern. When was the last time you paid your writing bill? No, you hold the ability to write inside of you. You master that skill, and then you can communicate with others that can read and write. Holochain is similar.

• The way we see this working, is people learn how to build Holochain application and start using them with other people. Our organization might never even learn about that application, let alone charge for it. And we think this is appropriate.

• That said, in order to support the growth of Holochain, we're building an application called Holo to bridge between the old and the new internet.

Holo is a service application that we think many Holochain apps will use and this has its own business model. Holo makes it easier for these new peer-to-peer applications to speak to the outside world, to anyone who opens a web browser and types a URL.

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