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Mlmikael
18:01
Also one more question here, for its merkle node calculations, why does Bitcoin use the child hashes in
reverse
order when calculating a merkle node hash? (pointed out at
https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-to-manually-verify-the-merkle-root-of-a-bitcoin-block-command-line-7881397d4db1
) also are you aware of any particular rationale for using double SHA256:s instead of one
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How to manually verify the merkle root of a Bitcoin block (command line)
Let’s do it again! (see How to manually verify block hash) for a similar article