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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Replying to @urbit
What makes this routable network superior? Why this design and what purpose does it achieve? Whats wrong with plain IP?
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*your!
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Replying to @Xatarrer
Well, you definitely need more than one entity to distribute them.
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Then we use the hierarchy to do peer discovery, somewhat like DNS. You’re never trapped under a parent though, you can always move.
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Replying to @urbit
Is it a layer on top of IP or the goal would be to replace it? I think there other projects with this idea like
@Skycoinproject. I guess it's the mix of data ownership and routing that make you unique?1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
It's a layer on top, more or less. Don't know much about Skycoin — but Urbit is both an identity system (Azimuth) and an OS (Arvo). Arvo is a general purpose computer: filesystem, build system, web server, secret storage, language *and* overlay network.
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