HORNETS 2 years ago

Hashed tree structures have a long open-source legacy. From the invention of Merkle Trees by Ralph Merkle in the 80s, later adopted by #bitcoin , to Git’s use of hashed DAGs and IPFS's implementation of Merkle DAGs for file storage. The evolution continues:

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GitHub - HORNET-Storage/Scionic-Merkle-Tree: Scionic Merkle Trees contain small branches like Classic Merkle Trees, the folder storage support of Merkle DAGs, and numbered Merkle leaves so anyone can sync by requesting a range of missing leaf numbers that correspond to missing file chunks.

Scionic Merkle Trees contain small branches like Classic Merkle Trees, the folder storage support of Merkle DAGs, and numbered Merkle leaves so any...