The key for me was:

> Each urbit is a node on an global, encrypted P2P network. Your Urbit name, a generated pseudonym like ~talsur-todres, is also your network address. Like Bitcoin, Urbit address space is a cryptographic asset with a limited supply.

Additionally from the whitepaper:

> Functionally, Urbit is a full execution stack. VM, compiler, OS, network, web server, and core apps are 30kloc […]

It's a distributed, encrypted peer-to-peer virtual machine. Fascinating.

Interesting to see what Urbit _actually_ is after all the pretentious bullshit they've spouted in the past.

Consider what you would do with a personal server. Now imagine it's easy enough for anyone to use and maintain. Now imagine everyone's personal server could connect and communicate with each other seamlessly and securely, transferring data of any type.

That's the promise of urbit.

The insight by Curtis Yarvin is that modern computation is massively, massively wasteful. That there is a simple way to do computing we do today.