Piece - Part of a file
A Piece
is an object that represents a whole or part of a File
, and is used by Clients
and Miners
in Deals
. Clients
hire Miners
to store Pieces
.
The piece data structure is designed for proving storage of arbitrary IPLD graphs and client data. This diagram shows the detailed composition of a piece and its proving tree, including both full and bandwidth-optimized piece data structures.
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