What is the derivation of 12D3KooW.........etc

What is the derivation of 12D3KooW…etc in the node directories?
Its not super important. but learning the derivation of this 53 char string might give me a deeper understanding of just what is going on with storage in general.

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It’s a libp2p identity. Derived using multihash, I’m not sure which multihash is used here but there’s a bunch of links to more info on this page:

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