Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes

Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by mahyarm on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:08PM (#12003425)

So something like sandstorm with an autoscaler?

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by api on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @03:05PM (#12003878)

That's like saying a snowmobile is a horse on skis. This is more like a total re-implementation of computing based on a functional model and a re-implementation of networking based on a feudal/federated shared/distributed/content-addressable model.

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by Avshalom on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:03PM (#12004378)

Meh, it's a new VM and a dumb network topology. I don't know sandstorm so I'm not sure which of these you think is the horse in this analogy.

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