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Merkle tree

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In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf node is labelled with a data block and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes.1

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

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