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I was thinking the same thing. Pretty bold move for a startup with an aim to provide a digital identity for everyone in the world with their stack. But if you
by kevinschumacher 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Pretty bold move for a startup with an aim to provide a digital identity for everyone in the world with their stack.
But if you really dig (and I mean really dig) into their site:
> In the general case, a ship is actually a 128-bit number.
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> A comet's [128-bit] address is the hash of its initial public key. Anyone can launch a comet. Nothing stops you from using a comet as your identity, except that the name is a mouthful and everyone will assume you're a bot. [0]
So, I mean, there will be a market for names I guess.
[0] https://urbit.org/posts/address-space/#-moons-and-comets https://urbit.org/posts/address-space/#-moons-and-comets