CID concept is broken

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CID concept is broken

https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/cid-concept-is-broken/9733/

Hello everyone! I really like the ideas behind IPFS and I want to share some feedback about the design of the IPFS. The core of the problem is that CID concept is wrong in it’s current implementation. I know it sounds blunt and harsh so let me clarify: IPFS at its core claims to be a content addressable file system. Content address A content’s address is determined by it’s digest. Simply put - a stream of bytes that represent a file on the disk fed into a hashing function give us the diges...

CID concept is broken

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!