From block 0 to block 72499 the Merkle root is the same as the coinbase transaction id. Why is that?

Author: Christophe Biocca 2014-09-20 16:22:10
Published on: 2014-09-20T16:22:10+00:00

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Summary:

In a Bitcoin-development mailing list, Peter Grigor explains that only certain transactions in the Bitcoin blockchain have associated Coinbase transactions and nothing else. The merkle root of a tree with just one item is the hash of that item. The context does not provide any further information regarding the topic.

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