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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Scalability
by
D҉ataWraith
on 14/07/2010, 15:26:04 UTC
Having a collection of servers that act as transaction clearing houses for people would probably work but it seems to break the whole p2p idea of the system.

Why? E-Mail and Jabber work the same way. Everyone can run their own server, and many do, but most users prefer to use someone else's server(s).

Edit: Even more closely related: Kazaa and Gnutella work the same way, too. You connect to a supernode that then searches for files on your behalf.