"Long after Jack gets bored and all NIP-65 relays federation run out of funding and shut down, there will still be 8 million wildly distributed (geographically and organizationally) DHT nodes"

You just made a lot of assumpitons here:

- Jack will get bored of nostr

- NIP-65 relays are costly to run and devs (who are Bitcoiners BTW) don't have enough money to keep running them

- Regular users will let them be shut down instead of sending donations to keep them running in case of monetary issues

- There will always be 8 million mainline nodes, they won't ever get bored or run out of funding

I don't believe any of these are true

BitTorrent itself might slowly disappear or become irrelevant, and with it the DHT nodes. A solution for nostr should be native to nostr, not dependent on another completely unrelated network

Also, if ICANN wants, they can start fucking with the entire mainline DHT network starting tomorrow, because the DHT network itself relies on IPv4 (addresses ultimately controlled by ICANN) for Sybil resistance