cyclomancer

The course of events that have taken place in the Urbit ecosystem represents a profound failure of the project’s governance: both its theory, embodied by the Azimuth identity system, and its practice, executed by the Urbit Foundation, the galactic Senate, and the founder Curtis Yarvin. We, the community and builders of Urbit, can no longer give their leadership the benefit of the doubt, nor continue to rationalize the crippling mistakes made in the design of Azimuth from its inception. Under such circumstances the only sound course, morally and technically, requires taking decisive steps to ground control of the network in an autonomous consensus of its actual custodians: the core developers and Urbit developer community.

Significantly, a lack of durable written discussion around technical decisionmaking in a canonical public venue goes hand-in-hand with a fragmented and informal engineering community that doesn’t effectively coordinate to advance its own interests in existential debates. The Bitcoiners have