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by supernumerary 3153 days ago
I wonder too. Most likely can pull em from whatever front-end is presenting the ledger but they stay in the blockchain, which makes the legality of hosting a node interesting ... Not really how Steem handles this either ... but they would be a precedent...
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Is the image data itself on the chain, or just a url?
It's a URL.
Then, if I may ask, what's the point? That's a very expensive way of getting immutability just to not actually be immutable and depend on legacy HTTP hosts anyway.
Well, he coded a conversation threading storage system on ethereum, that's still pretty cool.
IPFS URLs?