The problem is, as you've said, very generally and applies to almost all p2p applications. The Bitcoin client has a series of bootstrapping attempts (https://en

The problem is, as you've said, very generally and applies to almost all p2p applications. The Bitcoin client has a series of bootstrapping attempts (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network#Bootstrapping https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Network#Bootstrapping) which involves a list of hardcoded DNS and IP addresses, and establishing an IRC connection to find peers. I think using IPFS for bootstrapping is a pretty good idea IMO. At least you're relying on an already-decentralized system and not on a central server. I've been thinking about finding simple solutions to the problem like treating the IP space like a binary search space or generally finding solutions that are better than random sampling (More methods are compared in https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-01399-7_55.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-01...) I anyone can recommend more resources for learning about bootstrapping methods or has examples of how other apps solve the problem, please let me/us know!