> On the other hand, what if you generate storage files with random names and you have a collision? You just lost someone’s data! “This probably won’t happen” i

> On the other hand, what if you generate storage files with random names and you have a collision? You just lost someone’s data! “This probably won’t happen” is not a strategy for writing reliable code. If the entropy is high enough, and the likelihood of collision low enough, then this is a very useful tool for certain situations, particularly distributed systems. I suppose IPFS (and even Ethereum) was written by "poor programmers"?