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by EdSchouten 1106 days ago
What’s worth mentioning is that IPFS is built on top of a data model named IPLD.

https://ipld.io/

If you are planning on doing your own experiments with Merkle tree and such, I can strongly recommend using IPLD as well. The IPLD project has standard libraries for a bunch of programming languages.

The advantage of using IPLD is that you can use regular IPFS tooling to inspect the data and make backups/restores. Regardless of your desire to share the data over IPFS.