Hello World!
I’m Bevan, from South Africa. I am a work-in-progress and hence a rough ashlar is a rough stone, that still needs to be perfected.
I have around 25 years of mining engineering, investment banking and commodity trading experience, across the globe. So I’ve done all the “bad” things, although now I run a soil / compost business and a sustainability learning centre in Hogsback, South Africa. The village that inspired JRR Tolkien in Lord of the Rings, as his son drew the maps for the book based on Hogsback…
I’m inspired by Holochain as it seems more closely aligned with how our brains work, versus the linear, non-scalable blockchain being pushed elsewhere i.e. our brains are non-sequential, edge nodes, using grid / referential data vs. normalised data. I coded some of the first B2B platforms and commodity trading systems back in the late 90’s but now my C+, PHP, SQL skills etc. are a little “rusty”.
I’m unlikely to get stuck into Rust, WebAssembly etc. now, but I believe I can offer significant real world use-cases for the HOLO community. I mentioned some already today on the HOLO Telegram channel, where I was invited to register here.
I sense already that Art and the other core devs are set on having multiple currencies emerge in the HOLO community vs. Holofuel on its own. I understand this, and also sense that Art, Eric, David and Mary have probably explored many integrated solutions already. I worry though about running market price risk between the different currencies but I’m sure there are solutions. I won’t be rocking the boat in any way, only suggesting certain things from time to time, for others to consider.
For what it’s worth, I have zero interest in making money from crypto currencies. I don’t have much at the moment anyway, 
but I’ve never felt richer or more fulfilled in my life. My interest is in trying to understand Nature and her disciples, the elements, sound, light and vibration. It seems to be the reverse of the “Ordo ab Chao” we have been taught under Western consumer capitalism.
As far as my crypto interest goes, my core interest is in solving the “investor problem” i.e. why the rich get richer as they interpose themselves between consumers and producers, and suck all money to the top of the pyramid, and out into Swiss bank accounts, where it can do no work. In their quest for profit, they shrink margins for producers and raise prices for consumers. The world could work so much better than this!
This is also why consensus mechanisms such as PoW and PoS all suck. It’s arbitrary to create currency when a computer solves a math problem (and uses coal-fired power to do it). PoS only perpetuates the investor problem, whilst variations such as DPOS and PPOS are a little better, but still not really attractive. My preferred model is “Proof of Production” and HOLO appears to be close to that already, at least in the sense that “Proof of Hosting” is an economically productive activity.
HOLO’s “mutual credit” system, or what I would call long:short trades, is where I think huge value can be unlocked, and I will expand on this in due course.
My other core interest is in valuing all of the other capitals i.e. everything that monetary capital does not. For instance…
- Natural Capital (both renewable and non-renewable) - the wealth of trees, plants, animals, fresh water, soil, clean air, minerals and metals remaining in the ground…
- Spiritual / Elders Capital - the experiential and spiritual wealth of our elders, our sages…
- Human Capital - the wealth of our bodies and minds… to do work, to create works of wonder…
- Community Capital - the wealth of our social networks and communities
This is where I will be contributing, and I very much look forward to being of service in community.
I believe my experience can support myself to understand Holochain system works. That’s really quite impressive.
