Gavin Andresen - 2010-08-07 11:52:14

@s{quotedtext} @s{quotedtext} No, not at all.  Like I said when I jumped into this thread, I think using a DHT network to somehow distribute the work is a very interesting idea, it just seems to me any solution that partitions the network will be more vulnerable to attacks that insert malicious nodes.  I think it would be fantastic to come up with less resource-intensive solution that actually works.

How does Freenet generate node IDs?  The only info I see in the latest Freenet paper is:
@s{quotedtext} @s{quotedtext} .... and: @s{quotedtext} @s{quotedtext} ...which doesn't sound like it would work very well for Bitcoin.