Modern C++: Implementing a Merkle Tree
6 min readAug 2, 2020
Merkle Trees store a hash of the sub-tree in each of the Nodes, so that the whole tree’s contents can be validated against tampering.
They are used, for example, in Bitcoin’s blockchain, and in Cassandra to validate replicas.
In this article, we will show how to implement a generic Merkle Tree using features of Modern C++.
