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Yeah a huge portion of NFTs on Ethereum are like this. Hicetnunc does it right where by default the NFT is minted pointing at an IPFS hash.
by X6S1x6Okd1st 5y ago
Yeah a huge portion of NFTs on Ethereum are like this. Hicetnunc does it right where by default the NFT is minted pointing at an IPFS hash.
- anonporridge 5y agoIPFS would definitely be better, but there's no guarantee that the data will be stored on IPFS forever. I'm thinking something more like a hash of the artwork embedded in the NFT directly rather than just a link to it. That way, even if the link breaks, you can still prove that a piece of digital art belongs to the NFT.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoAs long as you've saved a copy of the art (the exact copy) you can restore it to ipfs even if no one else pins it.
- anonporridge 5y agoAh, maybe I need to spend some time digging into IPFS. Is it correct to say that an IPFS address can only point to a specific piece of data, and re-uploading that data will generate the same address?
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoYup! IPFS address is a hash of the contents.
- anonporridge 5y agoNice! I've got to find time to setup an IPFS node.
- IanCal 5y agoIt's very quick, and there's also docker images that you can use (handy for projects that use IPFS).
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Is it correct to say that an IPFS address can only point to a specific piece of data, and re-uploading that data will generate the same address? Technically I believe the answers to those two questions are, respectively, “no (because hash collisions are possible)” and “yes (because the same content will always have the same hash)”.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 5y agoYup it's possible that someone some time in the future can manufacture hash collisions and poison any IPFS link they want.