This post was originally published on the Our World blog on 6th February 2020:
Greetings Friends,
We have pleasure to announce that our Holoport has now arrived, which means we can be part of the closed altha testnet, what an honour! :)
It is GREAT news that the HoloPorts are finally shipping, which has made a lot of people happy and helps hc stand out even more from the other blockchains (not that holochain is a blockchain, and was already a quantum leap ahead of them), by backing up the software with dedicated hardware.
The HoloPorts will allow people to host hApps and earn HoloFuel for doing so. They will also act as a bridge to Web 2.0 so users can simply install and run a hApp from their web browser (this saves them the hassle of having to setup and configure their own node), which is then routed to the relevant Holoport host in their area.
This way we control the new internet and there will be no off switch so Governments, etc cannot choose to shut down the internet or censor it anyway, since it is owned and run by the people in a fully distributed de-cenealised way, just as it should be! ;-)
This is a REALLY exciting milestone for Holochain and is really helping to ground the vision now as the closed altha testnet gets some real-life testing at scale, I believe it will be well over 1000 Holoports (nodes) during the test, which we are happy to say we will be one of them, in this historic moment for the future of the internet and humanity! :)
