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Proof of reserves, merkle trees, and trusting centralized exchanges.

The subject of conversation on crypto-twitter recently has been merkle trees. This uses blockchain explorer data snapshots to verify cryptocurrency wallet balances

What's a Merkle Tree?

Each node in the Merkle tree performs MD5 hashing of input data. Parent nodes concatenate the hashes of their children before hashing. (Credit: T. L. Oliver CC BY-SA

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency #2: Hash pointers and data structures

Hash Pointer A hash pointer is a data structure that is used a lot in the systems that we're talking about. It is basically a pointer to the place where some information