OK that was quick, so you mean THE "gossip model" + special relay to find the special events instead of a DHT.

Sure, if you can trust that purple pages relay is gonna last forever and scale to millions of users, then you just proved Bittorrent didn't need a DHT and they could have went with a single tracker.

But if you recognize that you absolutely need load balancing among many many volunteering churning servers, then you need a DHT

So now the question is, should Nostr build a DHT that treats secp as a first class citizen, and have like 10 nodes in that DHT, or use the existing 10 million nodes of Bittorrent DHT and accept ed25519 keys like they accept NIP5?

If you think the latter makes more sense, well, that is exactly what Pkarr is, plus some work I did to prove the viability of the model, not much more.

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