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Why do we need double hashing in a Merkle tree?
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fevirfevir
on 13/08/2015, 11:32:33 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (2)
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.