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A blockchain is a just a linear merkle tree.
by cdancette 9y ago
A blockchain is a just a linear merkle tree.
- mbrock 9y agoPut differently, it's like a branching DAG with economic incentives to always treat the longest path as "master." Quite a lot like a Git repository: you usually want to follow the branch with the most cumulative work on it.
- cdancette 9y agoIt's more of a tree than a DAG : you'll never have merging in a blockchain. A tree where the longest path is considered the real branch.