Merklize this! Merkle Trees & Patricia Tries

If you like what we do: Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefmJoin us on Telegram - https://t.me/joinchat/B_81tQ57-ThZg8yOSx5gjASupport us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge Or directly here: ETH: 0xC0FFEE1B5083230a5154F55f253B6b6ae8F29B1aBTC: 1cafekGa3podM4fBxPSQc6RCEXQNTK8ZzIn this week's episode, Anna and Fredrik dig into the topic of Merkle trees. We discuss the history of the concept, explore different kinds of Merkle trees, and touch on Radix trees & Patricia Merkle tries. We also look a bit at their usage in both Bitcoin and Ethereum.The topic was a challenging one to explain without diagrams or visuals, so below we are sharing some resources we used in preperation for this episode. We will also be posting this on Github, please feel free to push additional links that might be relevant. Wikipedia definition of a Merkle TreeDan Finlay's talkMerkle Trees explainedWikipedia definition of a Radix TreeMerkling in EthereumEthereum Modified Merkle Patricia Trie systemSparse Merkle TreesBlockchain at Berkeley: Merkle trees and Patricia TriesModified Merkle Patricia Trie: How Ethereum saves a stateModified Merkle Patricia Trie SpecificationThe Merry Merkle initiativeLet us know what you think about this episode, we would love to hear from you.