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CID concept is broken (discuss.ipfs.tech)

submitted 5 months 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 5 months 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...