Merkle Tree

By CoinGecko | Updated on Mar 03, 2020

A Merkle tree is also known as a hash tree in cryptography. It is a tree where every lead node is labelled with cryptographic hash of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels of its child nodes. It is used to verify of data stored within it and transferable in and between computers.

Related Terms

zkML (Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning)

Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning (zkML) integrates the principles of zero-knowledge proofs with ML.

Byzantine Fault

A byzantine fault is where an error has occured, yet a computer system does not know due which component/what failed to the lack of information and continues to iterate on a given instruction.

Bagholder

A person who is holding a large quantity of cryptocurrency which is declining in value or becoming worthless

Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is a process of encoding information the original form of information called plaintext via an algorithm called cipher. The encrypted message is now called ciphertext. Only authorized parties can decipher the ciphertext and convert back it to the original plaintext.

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