Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes
by vertex-four on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:26PM
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The novel bits are:
* Everything on the VM is purely functional, and inputs essentially cause transactions which can fail/succeed - the result being that it's supposedly easier to implement certain types of network protocols, specifically the ones that Ames implements
* A somewhat decent revision-controlled filesystem with push/pull/merge, static typing of files, and a built-in build system of sorts
And last but not least...
* Feudalism built into the core p2p protocol as an explicit design decision
* Everything on the VM is purely functional, and inputs essentially cause transactions which can fail/succeed - the result being that it's supposedly easier to implement certain types of network protocols, specifically the ones that Ames implements
* A somewhat decent revision-controlled filesystem with push/pull/merge, static typing of files, and a built-in build system of sorts
And last but not least...
* Feudalism built into the core p2p protocol as an explicit design decision