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bitcoinerrorlog on Nostr: Simply, a DHT is a way of distributing a lot of unique data across many nodes, while ...

Simply, a DHT is a way of distributing a lot of unique data across many nodes, while remaining very fast. Pubky uses Mainline DHT as a place to store our own version of DNS records, called PKARR (public-key-addressable resource records), or, more broadly, PKDNS.

How Pubky uses Mainline DHT for its PKDNS system:
https://medium.com/pubky/public-key-domains-censorship-resistance-explained-33d0333e6123

All about Mainline's censorship resistance:
https://medium.com/pubky/mainline-dht-censorship-explained-b62763db39cb

Great video about Kademlia, the DHT technology that Mainline uses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QdKhNpsj8M