Merkle Tree Playground

A Merkle Tree allows you to efficiently verify that a piece of data (a "leaf") is part of a larger set. It's used in blockchains to validate transactions without downloading the entire block.

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What is a Merkle Tree?

A Merkle Tree is a cryptographic data structure that summarizes and verifies large datasets efficiently. Each leaf is hashed, and parent nodes are recursively hashed together, forming a tree with a single root.

Bitcoin uses Merkle Trees to store transactions in each block.
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