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by syllogism 368 days ago
Like a backup generator for inputs. Makes sense.
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Yes, this is how I have set up systems to bootstrap.

For example a service discovery system periodically serializes peers to disk, and then if the whole thing falls down we have static IP addresses for a node and the service discovery system can use the last known IPs of peers to bring itself back up.