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Thanks! Right now we're sort of in a chicken-and-egg situation where everything uses (mutable) URLs, so knowing the hash of a file isn't very useful. The Hash A

by btrask 10y ago

Thanks! Right now we're sort of in a chicken-and-egg situation where everything uses (mutable) URLs, so knowing the hash of a file isn't very useful. The Hash Archive is part of my strategy for promoting content addressing, to hopefully raise demand for systems like StrongLink (and others).

tekacs 10y ago
The more people pushing for awareness the better! Hopefully with other work like IPFS (which you do reference), use of this approach for /more/ consumer systems is around the corner. :)
- btrask 10y ago
  Yeah, IPFS is a big one. I plan on adding support for computing IPFS hashes to Hash Archive at some point too.