Ethereum

Can anyone explain Urbit to me? Stumbled across it recently and it looks interesting, but honestly I don't understand it even after reading through the website. I can see its an operating system, but that's about as far as I've got

Enthusiastic about web3 domains. Imported a web2 DNS address into ENS and voila, got my grail domain, Jack.top

Urbit is a virtual machine that runs on top of your base OS (eg Linux), which uses P2P networking to connect with other machines running Urbit.

Supposedly, this enables extra security, control, etc.

Public goods are good. Commons maxi. Here to dismantle shareholder capitalism, not reproduce it on-chain.

It's also pretty problematic. When I investigated, it seems to be about replacing an existing hierarchy of domination and rent extraction with a new one - where the Urbit ID owners accrue value.

Urbit uses Ethereum, but I'd very much hesitate before saying it's values are Ethereum-aligned.

Well, there's a couple claims:

1) modern software stacks are very insecure, thanks to complexity and like 30 years of development where security wasn't necessarily the focus. Putting all your sensitive stuff into a VM that's safeguarded against outside interference is more secure (theoretically).

Yeah, the website talked about being a new operating system which seems intriguing but I really couldn't see what it's being used for and why its actually better. Or if you need to be a developer to actually know how to use it. Thanks for the response.