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by cLeEOGPw 4693 days ago
Node to node communication may work fine when there's few locals connected to each other. But if the project somehow would cover the whole world, wouldn't latency with a faraway node come close to infinity? Besides, how would the messages find it's way to a node, let's say 1000 nodes away from you? Natural development would be that few nodes would become much larger than the others, and those nodes would handle small nodes around it and communicate with other large nodes far away, but then the large nodes would become like ISP's and could be compromised by the government, effectively crippling the network. But it could be that the node-to-node communication would only be used as a fallback option for the information that is unable to pass through the bigger possibly under control nodes... I guess I should take a look at it.