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by adrusi 3967 days ago
This is usually achieved using distributed hash tables. Almost certainly the most prominent use of this is magnet links in bittorrent. Freenet has also been doing this for a long time, and ipfs is a relatively new player.

The internals of distributed hash tables are out of scope for a comment thread, but if you happen to know about the structure of the cassandra database, they're related concepts.