Galaxy Brains

Urbit is the New Internet w/ Christian Langalis

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Dec 7, 2023
Bitcoin Sign Guy Christian Langalis discusses Bitcoin and the emergence of Urbit as a decentralized internet. Beimnet Abebe talks about markets and the rising price of Bitcoin, challenges of starting an intentional community online, limitations of blockchain replication, running a personal server in the Unix paradigm, and exploring Urbit as the future of the internet and self-sovereignty.
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ANECDOTE

Bitcoin Sign Guy Origin Story

  • Christian Langalis became known as the “Bitcoin Sign Guy” after holding a handmade Bitcoin sign behind Janet Yellen during congressional testimony.
  • This stunt marked his full commitment to Bitcoin after seeing the centralized manipulation in traditional markets.
INSIGHT

Urbit Refounds Computing

  • Urbit refounds personal computing aiming for a simpler, more coherent system than today's layered internet.
  • It seeks to replace centralized servers with user-owned personal servers connected organically to the network.
INSIGHT

Unique Urbit Namespace

  • Urbit uses a unique naming system of "planets" and "galaxies" for human-legible, yet non-rivalrous identities.
  • This namespace avoids competition for names common on the traditional internet's DNS.
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