Answer by Erhard Dinhobl for What is the Merkle root?
BE AWARE! The merkle root is important for mining. since the merkle root is the hashed value of ALL transaction hashes from the block, the value of the merkle root is taken into advance when miners do...
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Answer by Geremia for What is the Merkle root?
"Figure 7-2. Calculating the nodes in a merkle tree" from Mastering Bitcoin shows the Merkle Root (HABCD) of a list of four transactions: Tx A, Tx B, Tx C, and Tx D: To verify that a transaction—for...
View ArticleAnswer by HenryDorsettCase for What is the Merkle root?
The Merkle Root, as I understand it, is basically a hash of many hashes (Good example here) - to create a Merkle Root you must start by taking a double SHA-256 hash of the byte streams of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Eyal for What is the Merkle root?
It's not true that you use just the merkle root (nor does the article say that). Rather, you use just the parts of the merkle tree that relate to your transaction. That includes the root.
View ArticleAnswer by David Ogren for What is the Merkle root?
The idea (as I understand it) is that the Merkle tree allows for you to verify transactions as needed and not include the body of every transaction in the block header, while still providing a way to...
View ArticleAnswer by Bitripple for What is the Merkle root?
This may be a good introduction. Ripple may be using Merkle tree but I am not sure: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree Also check this:...
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The Bitcoin wiki Vocabulary article explains why the Merkle root exists: Every transaction has a hash associated with it. In a block, all of the transaction hashes in the block are themselves hashed...
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