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RE: Intro to Urbit and a Planet Giveaway
Can you describe use cases for this technology? How this differs from blockchain? Have it something in common with Tau Chain?
Can you describe use cases for this technology? How this differs from blockchain? Have it something in common with Tau Chain?
The use case question is hard to answer because it's like asking for use cases for a Unix server on the Internet. Any app in this list is a possible use case: https://apps.sandstorm.io/
Another analogy is that it does to server-side apps what Chrome extensions did for client-side apps, but that's not perfect either.
A blockchain is a programmable database, Urbit is a full system software stack rewrite: OS, networking, compiler, PKI, etc. It has superficial similarities to TauChain in that they both have some pretty advanced functional programming theory involved, but otherwise TauChain is a blockchain project and Urbit is not.