[p2p-hackers] scalability (was: p2p framework)

Gordon Mohr gojomo at bitzi.com
Tue Nov 29 21:33:57 UTC 2005


Greg Bildson wrote:
> The only thing that may not scale is the network bootstrap (initial entry
> point) mechanisms.  Then the scalability is mostly constrained by how many
> new users join the network in a day - and those systems can be decentralized
> more as well so that issue could go away.

Yes. And if the network did have 2 billion nodes, you
could probably bootstrap by trying public addresses
randomly, finding plenty of acceptable entry peers
soon enough.

- Gordon



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