The IPFS white paper is one of the first paper club read throughs I hosted. Very readable! Led me down the content addressing rabbit hole. So useful! Content that you can get from any random place and still trust. Nick’s deep dive on CIDs is a lot, but gets you all the background you need.
I wrote a deep dive on CIDs, the self-describing cryptographic fingerprints behind every record, blob, commit, and Merkle tree node in ATProtocol. Part 1 covers the history, the encoding primitives, and the specific constraints ATProtocol applies.