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No, it's not a Beastie boys song, it's a decentralized file system where files locations are based on content hashing. I'm learning a bit about it and wanted to try it.

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The link uses ipfs.io service which serves as a bridge (they call it a gateway) between the file system and HTTP protocol. Basically it translates the following path ipfs://{CID}, where CID is the content-based hash address of my file to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/{CID}, as you can see from the link above.

I uploaded that short video and I'm not sure you'll be able to watch it if I close my desktop node. If you still can, it means I was able to spread that kitty movie to other nodes! 😻