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15− <h1>Urbit is a simple cloud server.</h1>
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21− <p>Your Urbit is designed to store your data, run your apps and be your digital identity. Each Urbit is a general-purpose computer on a global decentralized network. Yes, really.</p>
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27− <h1>The internet is broken.</h1>
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30− <p>Your files live on someone else’s server, your identity is owned by giant companies, privacy is a joke and your data has all been either hacked or sold to advertisers. We live in 1995’s nightmare.</p>
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39− <h1>That you own, like Bitcoin.</h1>
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42− <p>If Bitcoin is money and Ether is law, Urbit is land. Each Urbit is a piece of cryptographic property in a finite global namespace. There’s no blockchain — Urbits are distributed in chunks.</p>
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51− <h1>And control, like your laptop.</h1>
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57− <p>Today each of your services has to store both your data and identity and run some computation. Want to leave a service? Too bad. Want to get your data out? Good luck. Your Urbit takes this entire layer and makes it yours. Instead of living out of hotel rooms, you have a home.</p>
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63− <h1>Self-hosting for everyone.</h1>
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66− <p>Urbit is a computing layer built for humans to own and operate individually. Sort of like the internet in 1992, but built for 2050.</p>
67− <p>We know how crazy this sounds — but that’s what makes it fun!</p>
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76− <a class="end">Get an Urbit.</a>
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