[micro_softy]

What is the key difference between "central servers" and "bootstrap servers"?

I mean DHT is "decntralized" once the client has a copy, but initially a client has to get a copy of it from somehwere.

And unless every client gets the DHT from a different source, the system seems "centralized" in that sense.

[cjbprime]

Clients are allowed to store nodes received by the bootstrap servers and use them again at next startup, so the centralization is only on first run of the app.

[Senji]

You could include a snapshot of the DHT on compile time.