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Merkle Trees Efficiency
by
Sam2
on 08/09/2025, 03:07:24 UTC
I understand that a Merkle tree allows efficient verification of transactions, but I don’t fully get how it saves space. If there are thousands of transactions in a block, and I only need to prove one, do I just provide the hashes along the branch? How much smaller is this compared to downloading the full block?🧐