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Re: what is to be hashed in the bolck and where does they come from?
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PRCman
on 01/06/2011, 04:09:46 UTC
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32    merkle_root    char[32]    The reference to a Merkle tree collection which is a hash of all transactions related to this block
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What's this? where does it come from?
That ones a bit confusing and has to do with verifying all the transactions in the block more efficiently.  google "merkle tree".

When mining, how to fill this field?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_tree

Okay, how do we fill the tree leaves?