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Where Data Lives in an IPFS/Filecoin World with Mikeal Rogers

Modern Finance

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What Is a Hash?

A hash is just a cryptographic function that will produce the same result given the same imput. You cannot reverse the content from the hash, right? The hash is much smaller. This is how you connect the random people on the inter net. And when you get that data back, you know that you got the right data because those hashes are in the torrent file. So every time that you get a part of the data, you go, oh, is that the right data? Ore they lying to me? Jus not going to happen. They was o up to twitter to do some type of re direct or something at that. But of course, it is not in their best interest

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