CID concept is broken (discuss.ipfs.tech)

submitted 1 month ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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TL;DR IPFS's "content addresses" don't actually address the content but a tree of the content stored in a protocol buffer, making it impossible to convert a hash to a content address.

DHT of CIDs? More like a Distributed Table of Lies!

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[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

It was always doomed from the start for several reasons IMO. The current design also causes it to get slower as the network gets larger...

this post was submitted on 11 May 2024

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