What are the benefits of Content Addressed datasets?

[davidgasquez]

Content addressing gives us the following properties that might be great diferentiators and ways to help users in their journeys.

• Immutability
• Avoiding vendor lock-in
• Better network usage (Efficient data distribution)
• Resource access independient from names
• Censorship resistance
• Reproducibility

I'm sure missing more!

[davidgasquez]

A couple extra ones:

• Names or IDs are not given by a central authority
• You can verify the data while accessing it