31 - Nick Simmons: Urbit + Octu Ventures

Nick Simmons is a cofounder and member of Octu Ventures, a member-driven venture DAO investing in teams building on Urbit. Urbit comprises a decentralized network of personal servers, a unique digital ID system, and a decentralized peer-to-peer networking protocol. Altogether, these constitute load-bearing pillars of a truly digital civilization. We talk about the Urbit stack, Octu's thesis behind a member-driven venture DAO, Urbit as a new coordination technology, the importance of persistent digital identities that are not real names, encoding offline social technology in digital online network technology, the robustness and fault-tolerance of the Urbit network, and building the load-bearing pillars of a digital civilization. Find Nick on Urbit: ~simfur-ritwed Octu: https://octu.ventures/ Hydra Ventures: https://www.hydraventures.xyz/ If you enjoyed this interview, please leave a review on Spotify/iTunes. Support Hacking State: https://hackingstate.substack.com/subscribe Listen on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alexmurshak Apple: Spotify: RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/hackingstate/feed.xml Get full access to Hacking State at www.alexmurshak.com/subscribe