What do Merkle Trees Show in Cryptocurrency?
The Merkle trees associated with each cryptocurrency block present in the array constitute important data integrity features of the cryptography domain and IT in general. To understand trees an example will be presented of a tree that will describe the relationship between its parts, from above downwards, from the leaf to the branch, and finally to the root. Through these trees, for example of the tree, each node – leaf (leaf) contains a data set. Behind each such leaf, there is a parent node – branch, which contains the data of the previous nodes in hashed form. Usually in existing trees, nodes are allowed to have up to 2 children - leaves. At the beginning of the tree, there is the root, which includes all of the fragmented data that…