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2−title = "Josh Lehman: Urbit – The Peer-to-Peer Network Re-Decentralizing the Internet"
3−podcast = "Epicenter"
4−date = "2022-06-29"
5−URL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqqUM-L_-2s"
6−image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/epicenter.jpg"
2+title = "Neal Davis: Urbit, Sentience, and DAOs | The UIUC Talkshow #21"
3+podcast = "The UIUC Talkshow"
4+date = "2022-09-30"
5+URL = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO9HwAbf-tY"
6+image = "https://storage.googleapis.com/media.urbit.org/site/ecosystem/podcasts/uiuc.png"
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9−Urbit is an exciting new operating system and peer-to-peer network that’s simple by design, built to last forever, and 100% owned by its users. Under the hood it's a from-scratch software stack compact enough that individual developers can understand and control it completely. Urbit deconstructs the client-server model in favor of a federated network of personal servers with built-in, cryptographically-owned identity, each of which is capable of distributing and running their own applications that communicate over the Urbit network.
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11−We were joined by the Executive Director of the Urbit Foundation, Josh Lehman, who explained in depth how the Urbit ecosystem was built and now runs, the advantages of the network from user and developer perspectives, the bridge with crypto, and how the roadmap for the kernel is looking going forward.
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13−Topics discussed in this episode:
14−- Josh's background and how he became involved with Urbit
15−- An overview of Urbit and the current state of the system
16−- What’s changed about Urbit over the last three years
17−- Urbit's address space consisting of galaxies, stars and planets
18−- What Urbit applications are and how they differ from iphone applications or a dApps
19−- The advantages of the Urbit user and developer experiences
20−- The connection between Urbit and crypto
21−- The projects currently being built on Urbit - Holium, Uqbar, Tirrel
22−- What the roadmap for the underlying Urbit kernel looks like
23−- How you can get involved
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25−Links mentioned in this episode:
26−- Episode 205 - A Digital Republic Reinventing the Internet: https://bit.ly/3yuvndm
27−- Urbit: https://bit.ly/3OC2uC0
28−- Urbit Grants: https://bit.ly/3QYDyWT
29−- Urbit on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3A9COrX
30−- Josh on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3No2Jz2
9+Neal Davis is a Computer Science Professor at UIUC and Urbit's director of developer experience.
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11+Since we started the UIUC Talkshow, we've said the show is about people who are sane in a way most people are crazy. Neal Davis is exactly one of them. It’s not surprise he believes we need to be weirder.
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13+He started as a nuclear engineer but throughout his life, he's reflected on the definition of a "good and wise life." This led him to want to "elevate sentience" in his life and the life of others. A beautiful and unique pursuit.
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15+That philosophy guides the type of work he devotes himself to and that’s he how he found Urbit, an ambitious project to rebuild and rethink the internet from first principles.
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17+Join us on this conversation to learn more about Urbit, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Balaji’s Network States, and why the best things that happen to you are accidents.
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19+This is the UIUC Talkshow.
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25+Neal Davis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/sigilante
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27+Neal Davis’ Urbit: ~lagrev-nocfep
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29+Urbit's Website: https://urbit.org/
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31+Urbit's Hackaton: https://uc4uc.com/
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