HoloFuel progress update
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Did you know that much of the work getting HoloFuel ready for alpha testing has actually happened in Holochain?
In fact, HoloFuel has become a great way for us to test Holochain, because it’s a fairly sophisticated hApp 
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HoloFuel itself is also seeing some changes. There are lots of different ways to model a mutual credit currency in code, and some are more appropriate than others depending on your context.
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Do you want credit limits, or will an Open Money or LETS-style currency work better for your community? Do you prefer fast finality or rigorous finality?
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Do you want to optimise for always-online users, or should it be partition-tolerant? There is no right answer for all use cases.
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HoloFuel’s codebase initially had a very clever five-step process. This was optimal for asynchronous communication between users who connected and disconnected from the DHT regularly.Show this thread -
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The primary use case for HoloFuel is quick-resolving, high-volume, low-value microtransactions between always-on HoloPorts
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This means that, while the current design was robust, it added a lot of validation overhead for little pragmatic benefit.Show this thread -
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So we’re in the process of refactoring it for this use case, which has the side effect of making the algorithm simpler. When it’s complete, it’ll work like the design we described in Dev Pulse 54.
Link here: https://blog.holochain.org/holofuel-transactor-a-critical-component-in-the-holo-ecosystem/ …pic.twitter.com/CABjC43A25
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In the meantime, we’re continuing real-life testing on the current design, which will be included in the next major HoloPortOS
update
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In addition to the work we’ve already shared, the core team is carefully refactoring certain parts of Holochain’s core to reflect things we’ve learned in the HoloFuel journey 