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0 pointsThaxll1y ago0 comments

You still need a central server though...

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LtdJorge1y ago· 2 in thread

If you are connected to the DHT network, you don’t. Unless you mean for DNS and such.

No, they mean specifically that in order to connect to such a network, you need to hit some specific central nodes first.

LtdJorge1y ago

The bootstrap nodes. But those don't _need_ to be centralized, even if they have historically been to some degree. There coul be millions.

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perching_aix1y ago

Yes, they just don't track the individual torrents anymore. They only play a role during the initial peer discovery stage (bootstrapping). Peers find torrent swarms on their own, the bootstrap servers are excluded from all that.

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