Timeline for If SPV clients didn't exist, would Bitcoin still use Merkle trees?
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| Sep 1, 2018 at 17:58 | comment | added | Meni Rosenfeld | I guess it's technically true that the Merkle tree structure is only used to verify a tx is in a block without the full set of txs, however, SPV is not the only place where that ability is used. See my answer for additional applications - bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/78838/575. | |
| Sep 1, 2018 at 17:05 | history | answered | MCCCS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |