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Josh Lehman: Urbit – The Peer-to-Peer Network Re-Decentralizing the Internet

Jun 29, 2022

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ANECDOTE

Josh Lehman's Urbit Journey

Josh Lehman discovered Urbit in 2016 and became fascinated by its ambitious goal to reinvent computing.
He transitioned from an enthusiast to working on Urbit full time by 2020.

INSIGHT

Urbit's New Computing Paradigm

Urbit reimagines personal computing as a peer-to-peer network owned and run by users.
It simplifies complexities by integrating identity and communication at the core of the system.

INSIGHT

Urbit Address Space Explained

Urbit's address space hierarchy of galaxies, stars, and planets enables efficient peer-to-peer networking.
Scarcity of address space NFTs creates valuable identities fostering trust within the network.

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Urbit is an exciting new operating system and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Under the hood it's a from-scratch software stack compact enough that individual developers can understand and control it completely. Urbit deconstructs the client-server model in favor of a federated network of personal servers with built-in, cryptographically-owned identity, each of which is capable of distributing and running their own applications that communicate over the Urbit network.

We were joined by the Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation, Josh Lehman, who explained in depth how the Urbit ecosystem was built and now runs, the advantages of the network from user and developer perspectives, the bridge with crypto, and how the roadmap for the kernel is looking going forward.

Topics covered in this episode:

Josh's background and how he became involved with Urbit
An overview of Urbit and the current state of the system
What’s changed about Urbit over the last three years
Urbit's address space consisting of galaxies, stars and planets
What Urbit applications are and how they differ from iphone applications or a dApps
The advantages of the Urbit user and developer experiences
The connection between Urbit and crypto
The projects currently being built on Urbit - Holium, Uqbar, Tirrel
What the roadmap for the underlying Urbit kernel looks like
How you can get involved

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This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/450