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Kok Seng Chan

Learning to program
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Kok Seng Chan
November 25, 2020 10:02 am
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Merkle tree

One-directional tree (data structure) in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels (or values in case of leaves) of its child nodes, until a only a single hash remains at the top of the structure, known as the merkle root.

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  • Condensing large amounts of data so that less memory / disk space is needneeded to store it and it's easier / faster to transmit across a network.