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Ask HN: Has anyone solved P2P routing at 100B+ nodes without DHT degradation?

Ok, I'm really curious. Is this just a troll? Phishing attempt for information about specific groups? Then again, the requirements would filter out serious responders, so just spam?

The post/project itself is an obvious scam. The first point is already impossible to do. The rest don't make much sense for the use case. And nobody would solve those issues without a serious lit review that doesn't require further asking HN such questions... after you have a solution... after years spent. Or hide their identity if they're doing PhD.

So is this just a funnel to get some people to check their domain? (For some voting system nowhere close to the description) Or is this some more interesting campaign?

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Nerd stuff aside, no voting system for socially significant decisions needs to scale to the planet. Democracies don't (or rather, shouldn't) scale. e.g. if the US and China or India formed a democratic superstate, the effect would be that the US would just become a vassal of the much larger entity.

If larger or more powerful groups want to impose their will on smaller ones, they can go ahead and unilaterally do that, and own their behavior. Doing it "democratically" is just victim blaming.

You are absolutely right. However, covering the entire population of the planet is required not for making democratic decisions at a global scale, but for guaranteeing the absolute uniqueness of every single human being within the network.It is designed to allow anyone to enter and leave the system from any device as a unique, anonymous identity while seamlessly returning to the exact same session. Socially significant decisions themselves can still be confined to any local community, even one consisting of just 1,000 people
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You know there's a relevant XKCD... ... Right? Also this article: https://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising...

I fear you might have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the world is really like, and what people are really like.

After all, the system you describe would not be used for democratic voting, it would be the ultimate playing field in which to weaponize surveillance capitalism and fascist control over societies. If you can't see how that could be true, then you cannot have given much if any serious philosophical thought to technology, because all attempts to fit the messiness of the world into an abstraction and "throw away the trimmings" is a violence you do to the real lives of real people