Why the prefix of the CID is Qm? Is it because of the SHA-256?

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Hi there!

I would like to know why the prefix of the CID is Qm? Is it because of the SHA-256 ?

@jbenet

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probably due to encoding in base 58
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Yes, and CIDv0. With CIDv1, you will see them starting with “bafy” all the time.

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