Need some help recreating a hash digest of a multihash

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All the details can be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51655352/how-do-decode-a-dag-node-object-in-ipfs/51658540#51658540

I appreciate any help/pointers :slight_smile:

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I’ve answered the linked question.

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@stebalien thank you! This really helps :slight_smile:

One thing that’s still unclear to me though, shouldn’t the Data hash in the outer protobuf also be a multihash? It doesn’t seem to be one, at least not encoded in Base58…

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That’s actually just “Hello World!” base64 encoded. Unfortunately, JSON doesn’t have a byte buffer type so we end up encoding byte buffers as base64 strings. You may find this interesting:

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Wow - thanks!

I don’t even think I understand. Will read up on that and do further research. This is very helpful!