Distributed ledger
*planted: 22/08/2021last tended: 05/02/2022
The general point of ledger systems is to use peer-to-peer networks to verify the authenticity of a unique digital object.
What matters about distributed ledger technology is the new and different affordances that it enables. It’s an open question who will be first and most influential in leveraging those affordances.
Holochain is an attempt to secure an important beachhead for commoners, even if it will also be used, inevitably, for less elevated purposes. The appeal of ledger technologies, whether Holochain or others still in the works, is their potential to create durable new affordances for commoning.
Economic Event Protocol for Distributed Ledgers — Economic Networks
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1.1. In my garden
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