This is a good question. But it is worth noting that not everything has to scale globally. E.g. in iroh-sync (which is an experimental impl of the willow proto

This is a good question. But it is worth noting that not everything has to scale globally. E.g. in iroh-sync (which is an experimental impl of the willow protocol) you are not concerned with global scaling. You care only about nodes that are in the same document. So while if you request hash QmciUVE1BqKPXMSvTTGwHZo1ywYdZRm9FfBvEJkB6J4USb via ipfs, you are trying to globally find anybody that has this hash, which is a very difficult task. If you ask for some content-addressed data in an iroh document, you know to only ask nodes that participate in this particular document, which makes the task much easier. Edit: regarding clients, iroh is released for osx, windows and linux. Iroh as a library also works on ios. Download instructions are here: https://iroh.computer/docs/install https://iroh.computer/docs/install