Solstin on Nostr: Another smoking gun. Nash references Merkel at 14:44. Merkle Trees in Bitcoin enables ...

Another smoking gun.
Nash references Merkel at 14:44. Merkle Trees in Bitcoin enables Efficient Transaction Verification. Instead of downloading an entire block, nodes can verify a specific transaction by checking only a small portion of the Merkle tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqzLizhLvEI