[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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