Merkling in Ethereum

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis at 15 Nov 2015, 11:51 UTC

Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so poses large scalability challenges that arguably…