I can't say for certain. I would guess not due to him being elitist. When he talks about his time on usenet, he refers to the time when it was exclusive as when it was best.
I think he wants or wanted as many barriers to entry as possible to keep the user base as elite as possible.
Interestingly enough, urbit uses ethereum.
Yep, I think that was an idea he apparently had, the barriers of entry, a sort of return of the old internet being a bit 'hard' or fiddly, for 'geeks' (pre-dating the sort marvel-type 'geek culture' industrial complex lol) I think I saw an interview with him (and Justin Murphy?) not all that long ago about him not seeing much hope for Urbit, but that ethos still seems to stand.
Can't say I know much about or how Urbit works, I have a moon or planet or something I was gifted lol, but never used beyond a first look. They have a b/tcoin wallet tho, no idea how that works either (?) Or what is being developed there.
They are also seem marketing savvy with their approach, getting v online cool influencer/creatives or whatever. And their 'how to start a cult' publication. But don't see much talk around it, outside of Justin Murphy - who I actually quite like lol.
I've set up urbit on a VM, but never bought a planet. I might dabbled in it again this year. We'll see.
Justin Murphy has some good stuff, I unsubbed a while back because I was getting too wrapped up in the new right content instead of focusing on trying to grow myself amongst other things. I know he's a big Nick Land fan, I have yet to read much of him yet.
I got my planet or moon or whatever it was off of some waiting list Justin murphy has, not sure if he still does that. But might be worth poking into if you want to dabble(?)
I definitely will check it out, thank you.
I believe this is the thing to get a free 'planet'
https://tlon.network/lure/~hatryx-lastud/other-life
(I could be wrong, did it ages ago)
