Peter Rabbitson

@blakesmith any chance of pulling [the commits in question](https://github.com/blakesmith/ar/compare/master...xor-gate:master#diff-dc03dbc53655fac7a4c8d16b1b4144c1) ? The license seems the same...

@lidel sorry for not responding in time here. Yes this is **precisely** what `stream-dagger` was designed to do. However, I really need to finish the `padfinder` module and plumbing for...

Hi folks, seeing how you are trying to move this forward I pushed an incompleteversion of 🗡️ that will do what you need ( please be kind, the helptexts are...

> it's just very unintuitive, esp. given the performance of base64 is roughly the same as base16. Base64/32/16/8 use a radically different algorithm - they map every even-sized chunk of...

Nope, this really converts to "bignum". In IPFS all the hashes are extremely short ( 512bits at most + some padding for multiformats ) so this doesn't become a factor....

This code by @njones https://github.com/gotamer/base58/commit/6134fb8280abc89c46ab75689d5589b8c6dfcc45 seems something you can adapt

UPDATE: below note was based on a misunderstanding, see second point below. Do we need the complication of OVERFLOW_LIMIT? - We always deduplicate ( entries are unique ) - ~We...

/cc @ianopolous to chime in : if my understanding is correct Peergos uses a close but distinct variant of *option 1*, while still managing to fully leverage "CID as the...

`ipfs add --cid-version=1` isn't "experimental" afaik - and even if it were, it's been around for quite some time. Changing its outputs by default is a bit... contrary to the...

@rvagg actually deduplication is not the primary reason for wanting this. It is **a** part of maintaining the symmetry of "this cryptographic id represents this thing, and this thing is...