IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) (Changelog Interviews #204)
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The Importance of Merkle Linking
IPFS is based on the principle of linking something by hash. This comes from Merkle trees, a data structure that was invented by Roth Merkle. You can easily reason about what content came before whatever content. And you are free to now accept it from anyone in the network. So all of this falls out of the fundamental idea of local linking.
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