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= Merkle Tree =
A Merkle tree (aka hash tree) is a tree where
* every leaf is labelled with the hash of a data block
* every branch is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its
child nodes
A hash tree is primarily used to verify the integrity of very large
datastructures in a very efficient manner. One such common use is in Bittorrent