The key for me was: > Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your networ

The key for me was: > Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your network address. Like Bitcoin, Urbit address space is a cryptographic asset with a limited supply. Additionally from the whitepaper: > Functionally, Urbit is a full execution stack. VM, compiler, OS, network, web server, and core apps are 30kloc […] It's a distributed, encrypted peer-to-peer virtual machine. Fascinating. Interesting to see what Urbit _actually_ is after all the pretentious bullshit they've spouted in the past.