The network is a distributed hash table or a DHT or runs on a DHT. To discover this DHT and to get the information from it, you need an entry point into the network. And so they serve as that entry point to give you the first sort of entryway into discovering the rest of the network. They don't have any sort of special trust. It's not that you're downloading the blockchain off of these and you trust what they're telling you or anything. So it's pretty much just to speed up this process, right? Because the completely decentralized way would be just to find a peer, a random peer that is connected to the network,. but it might take

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