[Cryptography] actual journalism, was LRB article, Satoshi's Trump Card
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Mon Jul 3 01:59:53 PDT 2017
On 03/07/2017 4:31 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Confused by this - Merkle trees inherently don't grow to enormous depth.
The bitcoin hash chain grows to enormous depth, and arguably it is a
Merkle tree that testifies to all transactions everywhere that ever
taken place in bitcoin.
If you say it is not a Merkle tree, then fine. A scalable crypto
currency has to employ a Merkle trees instead of whatever we call the
thing that Bitcoin uses.
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