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Why do we need double hashing in a Merkle tree?
by
fevirfevir
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13/08/2015, 11:32:33 UTC
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ABCbits
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Hi,
In Bitcoin, the Merkle tree created from all transactions contains nodes that represent a double hash of each transaction: N = SHA256(SHA256(tx0)
What's the point of doing so? Can't we just do a N = SHA256(tx0)?
Thanks.