Great article! Just wanted to provide my own tl;dr below ▪ MPT Ingredients: Merkle Tree + Prefix Tree + Custom Modification ▪ MPT Nodes: Leaf nodes + branch nodes + extension nodes ▪ State root: 256 bit hash of root ▪ Geth KV Store: levelDB ▪ Parity KV Store: rocksDB ▪ Tries: 1. Transaction Trie - mapping from transction hash → raw transactions 2. Transaction Reciept Trie - mapping from transaction hash → transaction execution Metadata

5 minutes (i.e. reading this article) could save you 15 hours or more on code reviews. Thank you for putting this together!

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This is the first of a potential series of articles I want to call “5 points & 1 resource” (think tl;dr but 5p;1r) where I summarize a list of bullet points that would have helped me start learning a new topic. …

This is very easy to understand. It's amazing how the benefits of key aggregation make lead to private key leaking if we don't have a good source for randomness.

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I remember thinking I had the foundation to tackle any problem that came my way around the time that I was graduating from College. Having studied a lot of theory in school, I believed that anything could be done by applying the concepts I had learned. With every year that…