Urbit for Normies • Blog • urbit.org

Urbit looks like a fascinating platform to build myhub on: “an open-source decentralized internet project... [to] give control of computing back to regular people... At its most basic level, an Urbit is:

1. A super-private (virtual) computer, combined with
2. an ID, which is
3. connected peer-to-peer with other Urbit computers"

Urbit user access their Urbit in the cloud and talk to directly with other Urbit computers.

Key features:

• p2p: no intermediaries watching, recording, selling, manipulating
• secure & private super simple server
• calm computing: "super clean interface... one login [for] ... document creation, email, social media access, accounting
• Urbit IDs are permanently ownable, "backed by cryptography ... no central authority can ever take it away from you", which opens up decentralised apps - the whole thing appears to run on ethereum contracts
• "identities are finite and accrue reputation".