# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-08-07 11:52:14
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=723.msg8078#msg8078

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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. @p{par}

How does Freenet generate node IDs?  The only info I see in the latest Freenet paper is: @p{brk}

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.... and:
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...which doesn't sound like it would work very well for Bitcoin.