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22title = "Azimuth as Multipass"
33date = 2019-05-16
44author = "Galen Wolfe-Pauly"
5−description = "An update on the state of Landscape and the Urbit network."
5+description = "What if everyone had a single 'civilizational key'?"
66aliases = ["/posts/essays/azimuth-as-multipass/"]
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88posts = ["Essays"]
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ Why not just use one? Forget about how we get there for a moment: just imagine h
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1919An Azimuth point is an identity and a wallet. Both a driver’s license and a credit card. Identity and money. Think about it as a ‘civilizational key’ for a new society. Concretely, it’s nice to imagine it as a physical object. A slick, card sized object with an e-ink screen. You can tap it to pay, tap it to enter, and plug it into a computer to boot your Arvo OS.
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21−Worried about losing it? Just remember your ticket. If you use our wallet system, all you need to remember is something like `~ravmel-ropdyl` and `~habpem-sondem-pidbyt-solbyn`. A point and a ticket. That’s it.
21+Worried about losing it? Just remember your ticket. If you use our wallet system, all you need to remember is something like `~ravmel-ropdyl` and `~habpem-sondem-pidbyt-solbyn`. A point and a ticket. That’s it.
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23−Woke up in the desert, no idea how you got there, but can still remember your point and ticket? Great! Just get to an internet connection and re-ticket – you’ll be fine. Although probably dehydrated.
23+Woke up in the desert, no idea how you got there, but can still remember your point and ticket? Great! Just get to an internet connection and re-ticket – you’ll be fine. Although probably dehydrated.
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2525If you’re someone who’s worried about getting kidnapped, just use a child identity. Your Azimuth planet has ~4B of them, so you can always invalidate one if you lose it.
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27−Perhaps part of how we ended up in the world we’re in is that we didn’t have something like Azimuth to begin with. Today, it’s backwards: everyone has an address on the network, but no one has an identity.
27+Perhaps part of how we ended up in the world we’re in is that we didn’t have something like Azimuth to begin with. Today, it’s backwards: everyone has an address on the network, but no one has an identity.
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2929We think everyone needs an identity that can hold money and have packets routed to it. Start there, and it’s quite fun to imagine where you end up. A civilized digital society might even be possible after all.
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31−**Galen Wolfe-Pauly** ~ravmel-ropdyl
31+**Galen Wolfe-Pauly** ~ravmel-ropdyl