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Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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Re: Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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Post by to3m »

StavrosK wrote: post #2

Is this meant to be understandable by people? Am I missing some context?

You can get started, sort of, from the white paper: https://urbit.org/posts/

(TL;DR: "Urbit also invents a lot of alien technical jargon. We admit that this is annoying. Abstractly, it’s part of the clean-slate program: words smuggle in a lot of assumptions." - to which all I can say myself is: qupnux.)

Re: Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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Post by azeirah »

I'm still very confused about urbit, but think it's quite interesting to follow. I found that this video explains it reasonably well. Watch it from 6:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md4boH1eZvc

This snippet also helps:

> Making the web programmable

> The first thing your Urbit can do is act as a transparent layer to your existing services. We’d like urbit to be usable as a self-hosted IFTTT for geeks. Your urbit can hold your keys, store data, run programs and seamlessly connect to your existing services. Plus, with a global revision controlled filesystem it’s easy to share API connectors and keep them up to date.

> With an Urbit running on your machine you can ls your Gmail from Unix. Write a short script to poll Twitter on a keyword and deliver the results to your email or into a Slack channel. Send an SMS when an HTTP request doesn’t resolve. These are just a few examples. Your Urbit is designed to make data trapped in your existing services feel like an extension of your local programming environment.

https://urbit.org/posts/vision/

Re: Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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Post by jacques_chester »

to3m wrote: post #3
StavrosK wrote: post #2

Is this meant to be understandable by people? Am I missing some context?

You can get started, sort of, from the white paper: https://urbit.org/posts/ (TL;DR: "Urbit also invents a lot of alien technical jargon. We admit that this is annoying. Abstractly, it’s part of the clean-slate program: words smuggle in a lot of assumptions." - to which all I can say myself is: qupnux.)

It reminds me of a previous techno-utopia.

I guess I'd put it on a poster as: lyrics by blockchain; melody by Xanadu.

Re: Bootstrapping Urbit from Ethereum

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Post by AlexCoventry »

hossbeast wrote: post #4
StavrosK wrote: post #2

Is this meant to be understandable by people? Am I missing some context?

Yeah, I was waiting for the "you can use Urbit to do X". No idea what it's for. There was a bit about real estate transactions .. then alot about space.

I think this is the closest it gets: "Your Urbit instance is your personal server. Your urbit should eventually contain and manage your whole digital life. You may compute at home or in the cloud, based on your security/privacy tradeoff, but Urbit's formal semantics makes ships trivial to migrate. You'll never be locked in to one computing provider."
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