Add tool for HEX-ENCODED binary multiformats?
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As @willscott [pointed out on discuss.ipfs.tech](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/should-we-profile-cids/18507/8), in some contexts (e.g. filecoin block explorers, but also UCAN systems using vanilla CBOR and perhaps also some bsky contexts) binary CIDs (or other multiformats) get wrapped in the `42` tag to masquerade as CBOR data, and thus get printed as HEXADECIMAL (rather than multibased) when spit out of CBOR parsers. This results in "multiformats" that look like this:
`42(h'000181E2039220200C7C257C5EA6BBA17053362...')`
would it make sense to add second page for "CBOR CIDs" (`https://cborcid.ipfs.tech`? `https://tag42.ipfs.tech`?), even if all it does is transcode them and base58btc them, bouncing back to the `https://cid.ipfs.tech/#{that-transcoded-cid}` from there?
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