Iroh 1.0 wants you to dial a public key instead of an IP — 200M endpoints in a month (iroh.computer)
The numbers are real: 200 million endpoints created on the public relays in the last 30 days, with about 95% of traffic flowing directly device-to-device instead of through a cloud hop.
Two of Iroh's own developers showed up to field questions, including the hard one a 'really pretty old' networking veteran asked: how does a flat key-based address space scale without every node tracking every other?
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