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Ethereum is just used as consensus for key revocation and title transfer between galaxies. They don’t need to use Ethereum or can switch to another method of co
by alexmingoia 6y ago
Ethereum is just used as consensus for key revocation and title transfer between galaxies. They don’t need to use Ethereum or can switch to another method of consensus, it’s just convenient at the moment to both distribute stars and planets and avoid having to build a blockchain or other method of consensus for the PKI.
DHTs do not have a solution to Sybil attacks. In reality, they depend on super nodes. That’s what Urbit’s spanning tree (galaxies/stars/planets) provides, a system of reliable routing. Nothing stops Urbit nodes from using a DHT to communicate, as the network protocol is addressed by identity.
- dfischer 6y agoYggdrasil seems to solve that fine https://yggdrasil-network.github.io https://yggdrasil-network.github.io It's not "Ethereum is just..." Urbit is sacrificing accessibility by adding complexity which Ethereum is, on top of the reputation of what cryptocurrency is, while also additionally requiring the complexity of wallets and ERC-21 (or w/e it is these days) to prove you have address space. That's bs in my opinion. It should be completely automated like Ygg does it and allow any peer to participate and connect and discover routing deterministically and dynamically. I hear Urbit can switch at any time, yeah, easier said than done when you've built a lot of expectations on a significant piece of the stack including the wallet and auth parts which are pretty integral. Then shifting the conceptual model? Not likely.