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Re:Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript ... by p2pchatter on Monday January 22, 2018 @10:48AM (#16205237)
Not sure how that would work. You would have to make some transaction on the Ethereum network for other peers to discover you, correct? That kind of makes the barrier to entry a lot harder.

On desktop, it's possible to use mDNS et al, we need something similar for browsers.

Please tell me more how I could use Ethereum for discovery of other peers though, sounds interesting.

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Re:Show HN: Peer-to-peer chat example built with JavaScript ... by DennisP on Monday January 22, 2018 @11:07AM (#16205411)
Yes, so it'd only work for people running things like the Metamask browser plugin. It'd be nifty because it'd be fully decentralized, but for now, using the discovery server as backup would keep it working for everyone else.
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