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by grlass 1709 days ago
iirc many NFT systems use IPFS [1], where content addresses and content hashes are the same. Of course, it still requires someone to actually store the underlying file.

A good lesson in buyer beware - many NFTs are being made (and sold) by people who don't know what they're doing.

Another quote from Moxie RE IPFS [2]: > another strange phenomenon is that NFTs which host metadata on IPFS often don't use ipfs:// urls, but rather an explicit https IPFS gateway, which isn't fundamentally that different from some random webserver in terms of what clients are capable of enforcing.

[1] https://ipfs.io/

[2] https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448162369553637376?s=20