Review on Urbit by Tim Venkatasubramanian

Urbit is a new operating system with an autonomous peer-to-peer network. The network allows users to maintain their own private server, or "personal cloud", which can sync data across other personal clouds through the Urbit network in order to serve applications without any centralized servers.

A new operating system containing within it an autonomous peer-to-peer network has surfaced called Urbit.



Urbit has created a novel internet-based operating system that will be resistant to the current threats of cyberattacks. The network uses the Bitcloud Protocol, which allows for both storage and computation to take place on nodes within the cloud. This decentralization of information prevents hackers from targeting centralized servers. Urbit is also protected by its governance model. Users are able to vote on changes to the network's code, reducing any chance that developers could introduce backdoors or vulnerabilities into the system.



Urbit is a project with the mission to “reboot civilization”. It aims to be the “next internet” that will move society forward into an era of decentralization and localization. With that in mind, Urbit bills itself as a “personal server for your data and digital identity.”



Urbit is a new virtual operating system that separates the logic of your program from the data. This allows you to run your software on any computer, regardless of what type it is, as long as the Urbit kernel has been ported to it. On top of this, Urbit provides fault tolerance by ensuring that data centers are distributed across all sorts of geographical locations.



Urbit is a distributed computing system that stores data in individual nodes and moves computation to those nodes where it can be done most efficiently. The team behind this disruptive company sees the future as one consisting of only data and computations, not physical machines. Driven by their vision, Urbit has created a new kind of programming language designed specifically for centralized computation, called Basho.