Merkle Tree: A Beginners Guide
Merkle trees are incredibly valuable when it comes to blockchains. In distributed systems, Merkle trees help with easy verification of information without flooding the network with unnecessary data. If you look at the timeline, the first-ever mention of the Merkle Tree was in the early 80s when the computer scientist Ralph Merkle, renowned for public-key cryptography introduced Merkle Tree for verifying data integrity in a peer-to-peer network. He then introduced the concept of hashing, as […]