Anatomy of a CID

Explore the ins and outs of CIDs (Content Identifiers), the unique labels used to point to data stored on distributed information systems including IPFS, IPLD, libp2p, and Filecoin.

• Lesson 1

  What is a CID?
• Lesson 2

  Multihash
• Lesson 3

  CIDv1: Multicodec prefix
• Lesson 4

  CIDv1: Version prefix
• Lesson 5

  CIDv1: Multibase prefix
• Lesson 6

  One hash, multiple CID versions
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