Two IPFS addresses for one file - how this happened?

Verity-Freedom · October 22, 2025, 10:58pm

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These two different addresses point to the completely identical files - one uploaded with storacha and the other uploaded with pinata. How is this possible? Is it a bug?

Verity-Freedom · October 22, 2025, 11:28pm

It says they are identical on a cmp level on Linux byte-by-byte comparison, but there are two addresses for them now.

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Two IPFS addresses for one file - how this happened?

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