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Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#21

Am I the only one skeptical in thinking that they didn't really sell 200 stars worth 200 USD each and they are making this up?

You're absolutely not the only one.

And, now the number sold is up to 340...

Edit: Make that 361 (2 min later).

Edit: Make that 421 (9 min later).

Edit: Make that 471 (11 min later)

Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#22
"Datalife streams", Stars and planets... This sounds more like Scientology than a product... I really don't understand all these things about "building a new internet", especially when they are building it on top of the existing one. If the existing internet is so broken what the hell would Urbit do to fix it?

Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#24

Am I the only one skeptical in thinking that they didn't really sell 200 stars worth 200 USD each and they are making this up?

You're absolutely not the only one. And, now the number sold is up to 340... Edit: Make that 361 (2 min later). Edit: Make that 421 (9 min later). Edit: Make that 471 (11 min later)

At this rate, they'll be sold out by the time it's supposed to go "public".

Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're absolutely not the only one. And, now the number sold is up to 340... Edit: Make that 361 (2 min later). Edit: Make that 421 (9 min later). Edit: Make that 471 (11 min later)

At this rate, they'll be sold out by the time it's supposed to go "public".

I suspect to test whether that would happen was (a large part of) the intention. :-)

Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#29
post #2

Surprised they are taking USD or any fiat for that matter.

They need to get paid, and they need to buy the IPv4 addresses that would actually make Urbit functional. What did you expect them to take shiny sea shells?

Many companies are paying their teams in BTC these days. Why do they need to buy IPv4 addresses? I haven't read the whitepaper.

Re: Urbit crowdsale is now live

#30
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They need to get paid, and they need to buy the IPv4 addresses that would actually make Urbit functional. What did you expect them to take shiny sea shells?

Many companies are paying their teams in BTC these days. Why do they need to buy IPv4 addresses? I haven't read the whitepaper.

I haven't seen many companies paying people in BTC, especially considering that it's not trivial to cash in large sums of BTC these days in many places.

As for the Addresses Urbit needs to run on something, the projec it so vague and the terms they are using are so for lack of better words ludicrous that I can't even understand what they are selling even after reading the white paper.

Data lifestreams, Digital reputation, all of that sounds like complete technobabel to me.

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