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I'm still unsure what this actually brings to the table and what necessity it actually tries to solve. Bitcoin actually tries to solve the issue of trustless, d

I'm still unsure what this actually brings to the table and what necessity it actually tries to solve. Bitcoin actually tries to solve the issue of trustless, decentralized money (Whether or not it actually does that is a topic in itself, but it tries), then you've got endeavors like Ethereum but for distributed computing (In fact, as far as I can tell, some of Urbit's aspects are built on top of Ethereum), Namecoin for domain names, and so on. It makes for interesting computing outsider art, I suppose, but being compared to TempleOS might not be too desirable.

bianothername 7y ago
What it brings to the table: - peer-to-peer networking for every node on the network - secure networking as the default - an identity system built in to the network layer (no more usernames and passwords) - A functional programming language that doubles as a serialization layer (no more JSON/XML impedance mismatch) - A simplification of the local software stack OS (<1% of the LOC of the linux kernel, though there is still functionality missing) - Deterministic computing The urbit developers imagine that in the future, things like twitter or hacker news will be peer-to-peer apps rather than giant mainframe computers controlled by a single entity