I can't say much about the Compact Merkle Tree, but Merkle Trees generally have had widespread uses in databases[1] and filesystems[2] [1] http://distributedda

I can't say much about the Compact Merkle Tree, but Merkle Trees generally have had widespread uses in databases[1] and filesystems[2] [1] http://distributeddatastore.blogspot.com/2013/07/cassandra-using-merkle-trees-to-detect.html http://distributeddatastore.blogspot.com/2013/07/cassandra-u... [2] https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integrity https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/zfs-end-to-end-data-integri...