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Howdy again sir molometer! you lost me with Merkle tree, what is that?

Basically in over simplified terms it is the sum of two previous transactions that can only be arrived at if the numbers add up. 👍

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In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf node is labelled with the hash of a data block, and every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes.

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oh, that is in over simplified terms? My gosh I'm hopeless! lol. But thank you sir molometer!