libp2p allows different tradeoffs to be made, application can express what it requires and the best fitting transport will be used - neat!
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Touching on one of the multiformats now: multihash. Others are same in spirit (boo, I wanted to hear about multistream :p)
Multihash: prefix the digest with a varint what the format is and a varint that specifies the hash length - that's jus' a 4 byte prefix 
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"Why use codes and not strings" - problems with encoding conflicts - can't make assumption so it all should be binary - makes a lot of sense
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Talking about multiaddr now. "How do you encode an address so it's clear which protocol you're using"
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