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Colby | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 IPFS uses Bitswap as a reputation system to decide which peers to sync with. It can be gamed with DDoSing.

How do you decide which peers to sync with on Amethyst P2P? There are so many users.
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the max | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 > How do you decide which peers to sync with on Amethyst P2P? There are so many users.

It can be done, here's just  an example: 
It should be possible to generate an onion address keypair algorithmically from the recipient's Nostr keypair, in a manner that is reproducible on sender-side using only the public key. Roughly similar to how Bitcoin HD wallets (xprv/xpub) work.

There are probably some privacy footnotes with this method, but would give you 100% accurate peer discovery without an intermediary. 

Just to be clear, none of this exists. It's only an example of how it could be done.