Finding the merkle tree in the block chain forest

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Clear, technical walkthrough of how Bitcoin-style ledgers actually work: transactions signed with ECDSA produce 64-character SHA-256 hashes, transactions are compressed into a Merkle root, miners search nonces under a proof of work target, blocks appear roughly every 10 minutes and the chain is ~8 years old in 2016 so rewriting history requires >100% of current hashing power. Covers Ethereum/Solidity smart contracts, Tendermint/Eris tooling, Merkle-tree uses like Google Certificate Transparency, and practical risks like key theft and the DAO-class failures.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:27Digital Signatures
3. 5:50One-Way Hash
4. 10:32Log Integrity
5. 10:57Certificate Transparency
6. 11:17Bitcoin
7. 16:36Byzantine Generals
8. 19:16Miners
9. 22:49Difficulty
10. 26:09Aetherium
11. 36:16Digital Signatures
12. 38:56Recap
13. 39:18Things That Are Important about Blockchain
14. 41:02Home Messages

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