Weekly Discussion #5 – This topic an opportunity for the community to share our collective Holochain stories - How did you first hear about Holochain? Where has your journey led you so far?
A great place to continue discussions from the Introduce Yourself Page.
Hi Sven and welcome to the Holochain Forum 
The term “token” in this sense means a very specific form of storing a currency unit, namely in the form of a unique identifiable token. But a currency piece doesn’t need to be unique and identifiable.
A mutual credit currency is just a different form of currency, that could do the same things as money.
Incentive systems can take many forms. They can be monetary, another form of reward, reputation. And there are different types of incentive that work together.
Well designed currencies (or rather current-sees) are much more than simply incentive systems. They improve and manage the flows of a system.
Arthur Brock explained it quite well this weekend at the Hackathon in Prague: Currency Design with Arthur Brock and Grace Rachmany @ Holochain Hackathon in Prague - YouTube
You could certainly find a way to build tokens on Holochain, but it’s not built into it. Most things don’t really need tokens imho.
Raphi - thank you for using this thread. Tagging @newprometheus for awareness so they can respond here.
Hello raphisee,
thank you very much for your reply and welcoming me in the Holochain forum.
Yes, I totally agree with you, that an incentive system can take many forms and doesn´t need to be a token. My point is not, that I would like to use a token…but what I have learned so far as incentive systems in blockchain projects is based exclusively on token economies.
I would like to learn how can I design and cultivate explicit incentive systems that adapt through feedback and a learning process from experience, i.e. are evolutionary, in order to align people’s individual incentives towards a functional holistic ecosystem. So as you say “improve and managing the flows of a system”. And it doesn´t matter for me, if this is reached with Tokens or Reputation or whatever.
So I understand how Token Economics works for designing incentive systems, but what else we can do or use to create incentive systems on Holochain without tokens?
I’m currently an undergrad studying a dual degree in physics and “BCII” (a generalist degree focused on transdisciplinary innovation, collective creativity and complexity theory). About 16 months ago, my course director for BCII, Bem le Hunte, invited Jean-François Noubel, @thedavidmeister and Alexar to speak about Holochain and MetaCurrency at UTS. Around this time, I’d just started dabbling in blockchain while working with a social impact auditing firm who was looking to build a ‘social impact cryptocurrency’ which I thought was pretty cool and was learning to design it with them, but very quickly I discovered how ridiculously complicated the currency design was turning out to be – we had like 3 different tokens in this weird structure where one could be speculated on and another was used to balance out the value of a 3rd one and I just kinda gave up.
My lecturer pulled me into a Holochain presentation where they basically were advising against using tokens for measuring wealth, and I was like “Wait what?! What do you mean? How?” – which I’ve come to see as a very typical response for anyone encountering the MetaCurrency work for the first time.
I then spent the weekend hanging out with these guys, with less than a dozen people attending, and part of that felt very right. Like, of course! If you’re onto something really deep and significant and counter-intuitive, it will start really small! And that’s OK. We explored Holochain and Holo, and Deep Wealth more deeply, and generally just felt we were in an environment where we could lay out our gravest concerns for humanity, and - although we were still grasping this new philosophical and technical knowledge - there was a felt sense that these things are fundamentally resolvable, an inner fire that has never flickered since that weekend.
Jean-François then took us to a park where I tried learning a martial art for the first time: Система or Systema. As Jean-François taught us Systema, I saw how he embodied principles of generosity and commoning, sharing one of his special gifts with us. I had such a unique feeling as I wrestled with and stabbed butter knives into people who I thought, and still think, are some of the greatest minds on the planet right now.
Skipping ahead, I got involved in a project with another student who was looking into building a web platform to help scholars get early feedback on their research projects from across the world. Separately, he learned a bit about Holochain from me, and we realised there might be something really interesting to explore here, so together we formed The Omni Project for a university project. We had quite a few months to really expand our understanding of the scholarly communication industry and see it through multiple lenses, and I injected a lot of what I’d learned from Holochain to vitalise the inquiry, and we got pretty far. I was really interested in the unenclosability notion and guaranteed Open Access of content published with a hApp, as well as the ‘Accountable’ part in the ‘Sovereign Accountable Commons’ to make peer review more transparent. We designed a basic prototype for Omni and, wanting to build it but having no prior experience in web development and no passion for letting someone else do it for me, I delved into webdev tutorials. Within about 3-4 months I’d written a bare-minimum prototype, which I haven’t really touched since encountering Daniel Schmachtenberger and his ideas. With him and other podcasts around collective sense-making, I re-entered the liminal. I’m still exploring what true #GameB collective scholarly intelligence will actually involve, and I’m leaving Omni up in the air and letting the current #GameB and Sense-making Web dialogues happen. The more I explore and understand this space, the less I want Omni to just serve the industrial revolution, and the more it looks like it could be a kind of weird (meta)psychotechnology to assist with sense-making more broadly.
Also somewhere in there I attended the Sunshine Coast Intensive which I have no words for. It was absolutely inspiring and I just can’t wait to meet up again with you all, now that I’m a bit more prepared in my technical knowledge.
The video I linked is a good start, to get an idea of what we, in the larger Holochain community, including the metacurrency project are talking about. There are a few great examples there.
Obviously, you can dive into http://metacurrency.org/ They have a good collection of material.
And the Commons Engine, another partner/spin-off/related group is organizing an extensive currency design workshop here: https://commonsengine.org/workshop/
Thank you very much for your reply. Sounds very interesting. I will check this resources.
Let’s continue over here, to keep the introduction topic focused @cameron
I’m not a developer either but, I learned a ton at the hackathon in Prague. About the development process and tools, about the Holochain and happ architecture and more. You can bring in your specific project and work with the right people from Holo and Holochain on it.
It’s probably the most intense learning opportunity there is. And you meet a lot of like minded people.
For those reasons I think especially for your case, the happathon in barcelona would be perfekt.
Sounds like a great approach you are taking for your projects
I’m located in Zürich, Switzerland and have a quite thorough understanding of the holochain architecture, the ecosystem and also how to get started. I’m definitely available if you’d like to sit together to get a better understanding of Holochain regarding your projects.
Hi @cyrus, welcome to the Holochain Community! We’re excited you are here and joined the Forum!
I see you have a marketing background. I would be keen to discuss further with you about this topic.
What’s been the most effective marketing strategy you have observed or implemented? What type of marketing tactics have you deployed? And how effective have they been?
I made a dedicated topic. There is a lot to discuss. Marketing, Business, Startup, etc
I see here everyone wants to make a copy of an existing platform on holochain.
That’s not good. Most of them will fail.
I’ll add my perspective here:
Hi @erlend_sh, thank you for posting your introduction. We’ve seen you contribute and comment about various things.
I would love to learn more…
I was wondering what are some ways we can improve our usage of the Forum (Discourse) and the flow of information and engagement?
I’m curious…are there ways we can better connect with the Rust community? Do you see possible areas for collaboration with the Rust community? And I would like your input on how we can better share Holochain and the content we create on the Dev Portal?
Welcome to the Holochain Community and thank you for joining us on the Forum.
Thank you for introducing yourself.
Hi @John, the best way to get support for your HoloPort is to join the Holo Forum. Have you joined the Holo Forum? If not, feel free to send an email to help@holo.host. Here is the link to get started.
You are welcome to send him an email at events@holo.host or you can reach him on the Forum @bear
It’s great to see new and excited faces!
To get started, we encourage you to check out the Holochain Developer Portal. https://developer.holochain.org, ask questions or respond to an interesting post on the Forum.
@Karghitect @ We’re glad you are here! I’m curious, how did you hear about Holochain?
I’d be interested in learning more. Are you able to share the link to your website or GitHub repo? What specific problem are you solving in terms of digital identity?
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Can you help me
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