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kimburgess | 2 years ago

Similar. It’s a Merkle DAG.

There’s an intro to IPFS content identifiers here: https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/content-addressing/.

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runeks|2 years ago

Thanks!

Why a DAG rather than a tree, though? I can't seem to find an explanation for why a DAG is needed — I would think a tree should suffice.

cutemonster|2 years ago

It's content addressable: the same file can be linked to, from many places. So then it can't be a tree

(But I'm new to IPFS)

From https://ipfs.tech:

> the innovation of content addressing: store, retrieve, and locate data based on the fingerprint of its actual content