It's not production ready, but fundamentally it works. There will be at least 2 more installations of this blog post series, showing the algo and the tests.

Crate: github.com/n0-computer/...

Docs: docs.rs/iroh-dht-exp...

It is probably worth mentioning that you can use irpc both to write RPC protocols to control iroh nodes, and also iroh protocols themselves, via the irpc-iroh crate.

The in memory version has almost zero overhead over what you would do anyway at an async boundary.

The problem with engineers trying to do decentralisation is the temptation to treat everything that isn't cryptographically proven as meaningless. Down that path lies defeat.

Most governance comes down to some vague notion of trust and goodwill.

Now, this article isn't quite a "scathing indictment", but I hope this is still refreshingly critical 😉

Written by @rklaehn.bsky.social (Bluesky has a hiccup and can't tag, so here's a link to his profile: bsky.app/profile/did:...)