~ Urbit Classic

Solem eadem orbita ac populo

Status: Live; come join!
Last breach date: 2019-04-01

Why Urbit Classic

Urbit Classic is an actually perfect clean-slate software stack.

You may have heard that "Urbit" uses Azimuth, an Ethereum-based identity layer. Ever since this was announced, "Urbit" has gotten more bloated and more unstable. The "Urbit" network breaches many times a year. Surely perfect software would be able to do better? Urbit Classic returns "Urbit" to its prime. It forks Vere and Arvo from their 2016 versions to deliver the perfect stack. Here's all the benefits that brings:

No dependence on Ethereum. The only blockchain you need is your personal blockchain.
No bloat. Arvo Classic maintains a slim 22k LoC profile.
Identities people actually want, using the pre-2016 @p naming scheme.
Urbit Classic incentivizes responsible ownership. You sink it, you lose it.
@p still has collisions. Owners of colliding identities must duke it out in unarmed combat.
No governance. A perfect system needs no governance.
Sponsorship? Escape? No! The network topology must remain perfect.
Low performance, allowing users time to reflect upon their actions.
The Urbit Classic constitution will be written in Latin rather than Solidity.

Finally, Urbit Classic vows to boycott all tech giants. No Google or Amazon infrastructure or tooling will be used in the development and hosting of Urbit Classic.

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Installation

First, install dependencies. If you've run "Urbit" in the past, you most likely already have these. But just in case, here's some one-liners for popular systems:

# MacOS
brew install git gmp libsigsegv openssl libtool autoconf automake cmake

# Debian-based
sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev libsigsegv-dev openssl libssl-dev libncurses5-dev git make exuberant-ctags automake autoconf libtool g++ ragel cmake re2c zlib1g-dev

Then you can download, build and run:

git clone https://github.com/urbit-classic/urbit.git
cd urbit
make
bin/urbit -w your-ship -t your-ticket

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