When the choice is to either quickly explain why a potential user should use your project or teaching someone without domain knowledge what the project is I would choose the former every time.

The part you quote even provides links to DHT and k-buckets if you want more information. That first paragraph is important real-estate and shouldn't be wasted on someone who most likely has no use of the project.

Every domain has these words that sound alien to newcomers and you can't explain them to everyone all the time.