[geoah]

Thank you for taking the time to respond and for the additional links. I'm planning to spend some time this weekend looking into this a bit more and see if I can answer my own questions before bugging anyone, if not I might take you up on that invite offer.

I don't follow the world of blockchains that closely (only so much free time) and I seem to have missed out on some interesting stuff that Holochain is trying to do.

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As for the patent part, I'm not fluent in legalese and so reading the following really doesn't fill me with hope on anyone being allowed to implement something similar for an open project that the holochain developers don't approve of, or they might consider competition.

> It is our intention to use this innovation and share it openly within the context of the Holochain open-source framework.

The "within the context of the Holochain open-source framework" part especially fills me up with dread.