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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by c_crank on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:26PM (#36649785)
What benefits does running this system on Ethereum provide compared to something like urbit?
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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by hanniabu on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:01PM (#36649994)
Given Ethereum's network, I'd like to pose the inverse question back to you and ask why urbit would be better
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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by c_crank on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:06PM (#36650018)
Not having to deal with the distributed computing problems a blockchain provides. No worrying about any proof of stake slowdowns or overhead.

I don't think urbit is all that great, either, but this is coming from someone who decided to increase their investment in face to face conversations following social media starting to crumble.

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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by ETH_start on Saturday July 08, 2023 @08:38PM (#36650208)
>Not having to deal with the distributed computing problems a blockchain provides. No worrying about any proof of stake slowdowns or overhead

Ethereum operates perfectly smoothly, with zero downtime since launching 8 years ago. In any case, besides peripheral features like NFT-gated forums and Ethereum Name Service created proxy bames, this doesn't use Ethereum's distributed network. Just the public key wallet software built for using Ethereum.

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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by ilovenerds on Sunday July 09, 2023 @02:33PM (#36657443)
I'm not familiar with Urbit, but a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation," which I have to assume is a for profit company. Ethereum on the other hand is guided, but not owned or controlled by a non-profit foundation. Ethereum is a public utility and they have a mechanism for community involvement and contribution via Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIP). Hope that helps!
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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by yosoyubik on Monday July 10, 2023 @08:08AM (#36665185)
Urbit has always been open source—currently under the MIT license [1]—and same as Ethereum it's also guided by a non-profit foundation, the Urbit Foundation [2] established in 2021.

[1] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt [2] https://urbit.org/overview/people-history

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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by humanizersequel on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:53PM (#36685605)
>a quick glance at their website says that it's owned by the "Tlon Corporation,"

Where on the website do you see this?

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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by ilovenerds on Monday July 17, 2023 @06:27PM (#36764940)
https://urbit.org/privacy

https://urbit.org/terms-of-service

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Re:Show HN: An Ethereum-authenticated community on Web3, sci... by yosoyubik on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:41AM (#36782839)
> Last Updated: September 24, 2018

This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website "urbit.org", not the Urbit project.

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