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 ## ☠️ Some terminology
 
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 #### Merkle tree: a type of binary tree, composed of a set of notes with a large number of leaf nodes at the bottom of the tre containing the underlying data, a set of intermediate nodes where each node is the hash of its two children, and finally a single root node, also formed from the hash of its two children, representing the top of the tree.