Haha, you’ve got it backwards.
With a merkle tree, I can download a tiny chunk of a file and still verify it’s part of the correct file.
Without a merkle tree, I have to download the entire file before being able to verify its hash… If the file takes a long time to download and you only find out it’s the wrong hash after you finish downloading, then you’ve suffered a delay attack & need to restart the entire download.
/ Colby Serpa 🧬
npub1t8…ra5h9
2024-04-23 16:01:58
in reply to nevent1q…6ljq
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npub1t89vhkp66hz54kga4n635jwqdc977uc2crnuyddx7maznwfrpupqwra5h9Published at
2024-04-23 16:01:58Event JSON
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