Ralph Merkle · life event
Apr 1980 primary
📌 “Protocols for public key cryptosystems”, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Ralph Merkle
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Cryptographer; Merkle trees, cited in the whitepaper
His 1980 paper “Protocols for public key cryptosystems” is reference [7] of the whitepaper. Bitcoin blocks hash their transactions in a Merkle tree, so only the root goes into the block header.
Cited in whitepaper [7]
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