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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by AgentME on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:37PM (#12003634)
>That number should have been at least as big as the population of the planet.

Addresses can actually be up to 128-bit. I think the idea is that addresses longer than 32-bit are just assumed to be bots, but that convention would probably be changed if Urbit gets popular enough for the 32-bit limit to matter.

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by jessaustin on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @09:46PM (#12006077)
...if Urbit gets popular enough for the 32-bit limit to matter.

I'm trying to think of a 32-bit address space that was found to be too small... I know there was one, it's on the tip of my tongue...

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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by throwanem on Thursday June 30, 2016 @07:29AM (#12007801)
That was an address space for computers, not people.
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Re:Urbit Is Building a 'Virtual Galaxy' for Bitcoin Nodes by defen on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @11:45PM (#12006420)
The stated reason is that Urbit addresses are for "responsible adults", and that each responsible adult will have 1 address. Each address has 96 bits worth of subordinate addresses, so you should be able to give all of your devices, dependants, etc an address.
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