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Re: HTTP Gateway 0.1 + Steady on

Eric Harris-Braun — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:55:49 -0000

Hi @Tzali Chalee, thank you for your questions.

1. The 0.4.x line is stable and usable for developing and testing applications and alpha releases, but for many use-cases is not up to snuff for deploying for end-users. The 0.5 line should be much better. Watch for release-candidates soon...

2. The HTTP gateway is a relatively simple and clear-cut tool, and so we will likely support it as long as there is significant use by partners and project with prioritization based on that scale of that use, but we also expect people to raise pull-requests against it as any in any open-source project. In terms of governance, we are going to be sharing much more soon about our ecosystem standards patterns which will share evolution responsibility with working-groups in the community, much like IETFs processes.

3. The gateway was a request by Holo to meet it's urgent needs. After specing out the solution, together we evaluated which of the two teams should take on the task based on team capacity, size of the task, and which "house" should hold the repo going forward given it's likely use by other projects, and after balancing all these we decided that it should be on the Foundation's side.

Re: Walkaway or Why Forking Matters - Holochain Blog

Eric Harris-Braun — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 11:45:42 -0000

Hi @Greg Kerr , I will agree that at the outset, we set a tone that was oppositional and indicated an explicit desire to create something better. I believe it was natural and probably necessary: point to how you are creating something beyond what’s being done and how it solves problems in new and novel ways. Differentiation from the current systems is a necessary part of that process, and there’s a gradient between differentiation and opposition. And though I also know that we may, at times, have gone too far with that energy, I believe it hardly constitutes elitism or exclusivity. Also, in the early days it was quite difficult to convey the difference between the Holochain approach and the standard blockchain approach and thus differentiation was important.

As to “tech that provides compounding efficiencies to the already wealthy.” I appreciate the concern for pareto effects in technology where early players gain advantage. However, I do believe that in this case your claim misses the mark. Holochain is designed in many ways at the architectural level to avoid exactly that kind of choke hold that’s currently built into almost every distributed ledger technology I know of despite their designers’ best intentions. And, the pattern described in this very article is precisely one of the missing affordances in the world that would protect against the kinds of enclosure you are mentioning.

Walkaway and forking with data (not just code) empowers any and all whom the “elite” declare as “untouchable” in ways that nothing in the centralized or even current DLT world does. The threat of walkaway also provides a systemic check on the initiators of a project to keep it inline with the evolving needs of its users. Furthermore, We, as a tooling for social surface area, is designed with careful attention for small groups to spin themselves into existence without needing the approval of anyone (especially us). This is directly in support of what you want, which is to “sub-organize within a greater group.”

As far as I can tell, what’s described in this article would only be a benefit to what you say you want in your comment. I will say that Walkaway and Forking may have some other systemic trade-offs, mostly around dilution of coherence, so I’m not claiming this as a panacea. But I do think it’s an important step to countering the pareto effects of enclosure built into the current world.

Re: Walkaway or Why Forking Matters - Holochain Blog

Eric Harris-Braun — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:15:27 -0000

@Joe Repka These are great questions. Also included is walking away toward what. These questions drive exactly the kinds of affordances I want to have built into tools like We; ones that empower the broader culture through lots of protocols on what and how be together do BEFORE walkaway is necessary. Thank you for your inquiry.

Re: Walkaway or Why Forking Matters - Holochain Blog

Eric Harris-Braun — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:24:31 -0000

Thanks @Francis for your reflection on this. I do agree that the term has some negatives (pun intended). I'm always open to new terminology, and I like your "evolve/morph" direction. But I do believe walkaway is an important term for when it really is walkaway.

Re: Decentralized Next-level Collaboration Apps with Syn

Eric Harris-Braun — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:57:07 -0000

Thanks Mushin! So glad this feels even somewhat accessible. I've often struggled with how hard it feels to describe the deeper architectural design elements of Holochain. So it feels good to see it land!

Re: MIT/KIT Ceptr Webinar - Ceptr

Eric Harris-Braun — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:56:44 -0000

Hi David, currently our work is focused on getting Holochain (http://holochain.org) & Holo (http://holo.host) delivered to the world. These are key components necessary for building out Ceptr. You can join the conversation here: http://chat.holochain.net

Re: Ceptr Blog - Ceptr

Eric Harris-Braun — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:06:13 -0000

Hey Joshua, link should be fixed now!

Re: How Using They as a Singular Pronoun Can Change the World

Eric Harris-Braun — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:24:27 -0000

Fantastic presentation of the deeper consequences of language shift. Thanks!

Re: Clojure

Eric Harris-Braun — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:14:52 -0000

Hi, I was reading your CEDET article as I've been browsing to find the best project management emacs package for clojure. I'm wondering what your emacs setup is like and if you use CEDET for clojure.

Re: What drives demand for money?

Eric Harris-Braun — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:32:19 -0000

I suspect (though can't prove) that the answer to your final question is yes, but I think it will shrink even further, i.e. to a backup procedure for when things go wrong. Family and tribal "economies" very rarely rely on exchange currencies, because they are focused on building the wider levels of wealth (relational wealth) which bring with them automatically the level of wealth addressed by money (tradable wealth). Only when things are going really wrong relationally in a family or a tribe do you need to resort to accounting exchange balances. The potential implicit in your examples is the realization that non-coercive relational economies are the most efficient. Families and tribes (gift economies) are more efficient than market economies. We just haven't yet learned to scale the relational wealth that are possible at those levels.

Re: http://www.homemakers.com/food-and-recipes/danish-style-whole-grain-rye-bread/r/10684

Eric Harris-Braun — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:02:53 -0000

How much is a "grain" of yeast? The mother calls for 4 "grains."

Re: Utilizing Scarcity in the Four Quadrant Value Universe

Eric Harris-Braun — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:57:31 -0000

Gregory, I really like your 4 quadrant value universe, and the thinking this framing engenders. A while back a created this diagram: http://openmoney.info/image... as part of a description of the levels of wealth and the the transaction media/methods that build those different levels of wealth (http://openmoney.info/sophia). The axes on that diagram are trust & consciousness and risk & complexity. These are of course related to your axes as trust & consciousness may be affected (though don't need to be) by relatedness, and risk & complexity affect refinement of value. So I don't have anything definitive to say about this, but thought you might be interested.

Re: Traditional economy vs. Knowledge economy

Eric Harris-Braun — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:06:01 -0000

I think the point here is that in the knowledge economy there is a new distinction that needs to be created, which is why you have a question mark in that column to begin with! To me the heart of taxation is not their compulsory nature, but the fact that they are contributions to collective well-being. Their current coercive nature is, I hope, more a function of how poorly developed our social feedback mechanisms are. As those come up to speed I'm guessing that more and more of the functions that are "paid for" by taxes will be able to be "paid for" by contribution requests connected to the feedback mechanisms. I don't think that this new category should be called the same as gitfts, which by their nature seem to me to be about contributions given in the absence of strong feedback mechanisms, and given in the absence of requests.

This possibility is directly related to you row of "control vs. freedom." In a multi-currency world with strong feedback, we can "afford" freedom, because there is enough information for people to become sovereign and act wisely.

Re: Traditional economy vs. Knowledge economy

Eric Harris-Braun — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:36:21 -0000

For taxes what I think goes in the knowledge economy column is "contribution." When we know how our promises of effort are going to be "spent" and there is transparency about previous results of such spending, then taxing can be a very differen thing, and hold a very different relationship to us in that they won't need to be coercive.

Re: The great inflation/deflation debate and a message of hope

Eric Harris-Braun — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:32:13 -0000

Brilliant Guillaume! This is why the next step in the evolution of economies is to bring to scale the inherent efficiencies of the gift economy. The market economy allows value for "value" exchanges where the second value is delayed value in the form of money. The scaled up gift economy will allow us to give even more freely with second value even more in quotes and even more abstracted, i.e. without expectation of returned value in the given transaction because the whole economy makes visible that we are playing with other givers and so we can "afford" to give.

Re: Funding public art with community currency?

Eric Harris-Braun — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:15:21 -0000

Right on Guillaume. This also reminds me of J. S. Boggs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... :-)

Re: What is a currency?

Eric Harris-Braun — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:20:18 -0000

I've posted some thoughts on why I use currency in a broader sense here: http://newcurrencyfrontiers...