Glossary Term:
Merkle treeA tree constructed by hashing paired data (the leaves), then pairing and hashing the results until a single hash remains, the merkle root. In Bitcoin, the leaves are almost always transactions from a single block.
Not to be confused with: Partial merkle branch (a branch connecting one or more leaves to the root), Merkle block (a partial merkle branch connecting one or more transactions from a single block to the block merkle root)
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