Urbit is Curtis Yarvin’s baby. Peter Thiel gave him the money to do it and he recently returned to try to right the ship as it was going nowhere. Yarvin is like the philosopher to the PayPal mafia crew, he is worth reading. Has some sharp insights but can’t hide the fact hes a snake in the grass jew either. The irony is Yarvin was earlier outspoken against #Bitcoin, his whole thing is centralising power in a monarch leads to the best results which is why he thought it would fail and why Urbit had a centralised team with a “king” and yet it was the project which failed.. note1rvmnny5kze56927xwcd8qg8s5fmmkfqc8626hl048g65vqyr0lysym0dgq

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Yeah I recently read Dark Enlightenment and some of his ideas are good, mainly the ones borrowed from libertarian thinkers, but I didn't agree with his overall monarchical framing. I didn't know he was against bitcoin at first, that's interesting. It's not a surprise that urbit was a complete failure but I think there are lessons there for us that are on nostr. Like I could see nostr suffering the same fate if we are not careful. It seems like the community focused too much on the lore of urbit but didn't both sticking the Cypherpunk principles that it was supposedly built on, and urbit seemed like it was all over the place and none of the tools worked well. It had no solid foundation to build on