Merkle Trees: Pairing Hashes Level by Level, the Odd Leaf, the Root and a Proof Path
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Lessons in this course
- A Shared Ledger: Balances from a Transaction Log, Running Balances in Order and Double Spends Pro
- Toy Hashes & Chained Blocks: MOD Hashes, Previous-Hash Links and Spotting a Tampered Block Pro
- Merkle Trees: Pairing Hashes Level by Level, the Odd Leaf, the Root and a Proof Path Pro
- Proof-of-Work: Targets, a Given Nonce Table, the First Valid Nonce and Expected Tries Pro
- Difficulty Adjustment: Actual vs Target Block Times over a Window and a Clamped New Difficulty Pro
- Unspent Outputs: Wallet Balances, Spending Whole Outputs, Change and the Implied Fee Pro
- Fee Markets: Fee Rates, Ranking the Waiting Pool, Packing a Block and Waiting Blocks Pro
- Capstone – Issuance & Costs: Halving Rewards, Cumulative Supply, Reward Value vs Energy Cost and a Chart Pro