Distributed Unique ID

⸺ by Charles Iliya Krempeaux

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There are two main strategies for creating a unique identifier (unique ID):

distributed, and
• centralized.

There are also some strategies that are some form of hybrid between the two.

Some examples of unique IDs created using a distributed strategy are:

s chosen from a large-enough bit-space,
• s,
• s,
• UUID of type version=`4` and variant=`10`.