Timeline for do transaction merkle trees have any use outside individual blocks?
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| Feb 7, 2014 at 11:16 | comment | added | Luca Matteis | Actually you only need the branch for your transaction and not the whole tree. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 11:04 | comment | added | Anonymous | Not at the present, the transactions within a block are the only place I'm aware of that Merkle Trees exist. | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 10:55 | comment | added | mulllhausen | thanks. spv uses bloom filters and the merkle paths within the relevant blocks to prove that the transactions specified by the peer really did occur as claimed. however i'm asking if this is the only way that merkle trees are used in bitcoin? ie are merkle trees only ever used within a block and never across more than one block, for example? | |
| Dec 9, 2013 at 7:55 | history | answered | Anonymous | CC BY-SA 3.0 |