A little thread on the Urbit ‘logo’ —
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In Urbit, every node has a name that’s both a piece of cryptographic property and a routable network address. These names look like ~sun or ~marzod or ~ravmel-ropdyl.
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Each of these names is just a number. ~sun is 15. ~ravmel-ropdyl is 4,391,936.
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Azimuth, our Ethereum contracts, store a list of who owns which names.
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And Arvo, our OS, lets you send packets to any of these names.
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The scheme for encoding these names is called ‘
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Anyway, when we were first thinking of coming up with a logo for our project, we wanted to pick something quiet and unobtrusive. Infrastructure should be calm. In a way, we thought, it’d be nice to have no logo at all.
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