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melvincarvalho | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I will say integration with Mainline was genius.  Never thought of that.  Now we see it we think "why didnt someone think of it".
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Nuh 🔻 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 DHTs had a horrible PR past decade. Some like Fiatjaf and others only experienced them trhough and libp2p which is rightfully shit. Others who know better think that it is not viable to use a DHT as a database, missing the entire point, which is that a temporary censorship resistant routing table is better tha no censorship resistant table at all.

I just went on to validate if it works, knowing that if it doesn't, nothing else will and we can just stop lapping.

Sorry, but we will never bootstrap a million nodes of anything ever again.

Finally some people are skeptic of DHTs vulnerability to Sybil attacks, and I am writing something about that to end this FUD once and for all, but even if they are right, the question remain, compared to what? Because there literally is no second best within the same order of magnitude even.
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melvincarvalho | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 We are in unknown territory.  Definitely worth a try.