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I'm curious to know how the Urbit team went about choosing the stars to distribute, it seems the 1020 stars amount to almost the address space of 4 galaxies. Ha
by davidgrenier 10y ago
I'm curious to know how the Urbit team went about choosing the stars to distribute, it seems the 1020 stars amount to almost the address space of 4 galaxies. Have 4 galaxies been picked or are said stars distributed across various galaxies. If the galaxies have been hand picked, could we know their names?
- state 10y agoThis is a great question. We haven't yet picked which galaxies to use, but they'll come from Tlon's allocation. You can find the whole list in here: https://github.com/urbit/arvo/blob/master/arvo/ames.hoon https://github.com/urbit/arvo/blob/master/arvo/ames.hoon. Since we have buyers in the order they came in, I think it'd be fun to distribute stars sequentially across sequential galaxies. But we really aren't sure yet.
- davidgrenier 10y agoI think "fun" would be letting people choose their galaxy if it doesn't matter to galaxy owners (which it very well might). Can you confirm that all galaxies save ~zod are signed by ~zod? I'm presuming here ~zod isn't self-signed.
- privong 10y agoI can't speak to the other galaxies, but ~zod is "self-issued": http://zod.urbit.org/ http://zod.urbit.org/
- juped 10y agoEvery galaxy is an apex in the PKI, with the apex of apexes being the hardcoded public keys for each one in the kernel. ~zod is not special (well, it's a tiny bit special, because it's the parent of things without parents).