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		anecdotal1 on March 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare disables access to ‘pirated’ content on... Most people aren't aware that there are also like 20 different valid IPFS hash formats so they have to write code to generate blocks for all those variants or it is trivially bypassed. I had to do this for my IPFS gateway at my job.

capableweb on March 25, 2023 [–]

AKA multibase + multihash AKA "self-describing base encodings" + "self-describing hashes" AKA https://github.com/multiformats/multibase + https://github.com/multiformats/multihash

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