Ah, you are quite right, I should have emphasized that point! (I guess I simply wanted to get to the drogulus part, but ended up expanding a bit.) Indeed, the

Ah, you are quite right, I should have emphasized that point! (I guess I simply wanted to get to the drogulus part, but ended up expanding a bit.) Indeed, the main paper introducing Kademlia is basically called, "P2P network based on the XOR metric." That is its distinguishing feature, but it is indeed enough to make all the difference.