So the merkle root, that's a hash that represents all of the transactions included in the block. It like summarizes all the contents of the transactions into a 32 byte value. I mean, you start off with all these branches, the first branch is the coinbase transaction and the first transaction you hash that together, then you take 4 transactions, you hash all those together and hash it with 1 and 2 and then you take 8 transactions and so on and so forth until you have enough branches to cover all of the transactions in a block. Max, I gotta go, I gotta shoot this fucking wreck. Alright, you little shit.

It's been a while since we recorded a bite sized Bitcoin. We created these to make complex topics in Bitcoin and some of the more technical aspects more easy to chew on. I haven't had a lot of time up until now, but John, my cohost for Action News and PMM, is getting on a bit. It's really important when people are older.

Hey Max, what's going on? It's freaking pitch dark here, there's chickens out everywhere, a raccoon got in the coop, what's going on? Oh cool, I just got up. Fucker. I was having a think last night about how a miner constructs a block. Yeah. Okay. That's that's what you're dreaming about.