>If Urbit were reimagined in 2021, it would be running on Sia or Ethereum: your data is stored on the blockchain, your applications are running as perpetual smart contracts, and you can access it from anywhere in the world with just your private key.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what smart contracts do. Every miner runs every smart contract every time something is executed. It would be disastrously expensive to run a server on top of Ethereum.
Urbit's network infrastructure was "reimagined" to use Ethereum for identification.
>Hosting on my own hardware is annoying, hosting in the centralized cloud defeats the whole point.
Is there actually a third option? I'm wondering of the author simply misunderstands Ethereum.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what smart contracts do. Every miner runs every smart contract every time something is executed. It would be disastrously expensive to run a server on top of Ethereum.
Urbit's network infrastructure was "reimagined" to use Ethereum for identification.
>Hosting on my own hardware is annoying, hosting in the centralized cloud defeats the whole point.
Is there actually a third option? I'm wondering of the author simply misunderstands Ethereum.