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by pcmonk 3198 days ago
There are about 5 billion adults[0], and they don't all need separate planets. Married couples, for example, may not.

That's beside the point, though. Using scarcity to create value is not "extremely unconventional"; it's about the most ho-hum idea in Urbit. If you want a 128-bit address, you can use those in Urbit just fine. The only difference is that they don't have a default-positive reputation (where "reputation" is an abstract concept -- in practice, e.g. some channels wouldn't let 128-bit address post comments)

[0] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/wor...