Urbit Explained: A Beginner's Guide for Cryptonatives

Nov 10, 2023

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Jake Brukhman is the Founder and Managing Partner at CoinFund. Evan Fisher is the Founder and Managing Partner at Portal Ventures.

In this episode, we walk through a beginner's guide to Urbit, geared towards cryptonatives. If you're into crypto, you may find a home here in Urbit! Founded in 2002 long before Bitcoin and Ethereum, Urbit is a platform that enables the creation and execution of composable, permissionless, and trustless internet applications through a network of personal servers.

We interview Urbit investors Evan Fisher and Jake Brukhman about the basics of how Urbit aims to rebuild the Internet from a clean slate, where there are intersections between crypto and Urbit, what use cases they’re excited to see built, how Urbit accrues value, and how we can get involved.

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
6:28 - Urbit's founding and history
9:45 - How Evan discovered Urbit
11:54- Why do we need a new Internet?
18:44 - Why Urbit matters for new AI applications
22:48 - What is Urbit?
25:49 - FAQs getting started with Urbit
33:19 - Local consensus of Urbit
37:30 - Urbit as a city analogy
41:07 - Recommended Urbit communities
44:49 - Planets, Stars, Galaxies as NFTs
49:45 - Intersection of Urbit x crypto + possibility of a token
56:02 - How CoinFund and Portal are invested in Urbit
57:20 - Recommended Urbit apps
1:03:07 - Can Urbit be shut down?
1:04:16 - Urbit x AI
1:06:42 - Closing

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🔗 Guest Links 🔗

► Urbit Website: https://urbit.org/
► Urbit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbit
► Urbit Primer by Evan: https://portal.vc/urbit_primer
► Evan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/evanbfish
► Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jbrukh

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