The subject of conversation on crypto-twitter recently has been merkle trees. This uses blockchain explorer data snapshots to verify cryptocurrency wallet balances on centralized exchanges, and show

Each node in the Merkle tree performs MD5 hashing of input data. Parent nodes concatenate the hashes of their children before hashing. (Credit: T. L. Oliver CC BY-SA 4.0) If you've tried to understand

Hash Pointer A hash pointer is a data structure that is used a lot in the systems that we're talking about. It is basically a pointer to the place where some information is stored. Together with the pointer