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A stream that generates a merkle tree based on the incoming data
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From `The Dat Protocol`_:
.. _The Dat Protocol: https://datprotocol.github.io/book/ch01-01-flat-tree.html
A merkle tree is a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every leaf
node is labelled with the hash of a data block and every non-leaf node is
labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels of its child nodes.
Merkle Trees in Dat are specialized `Flat Trees`_ that contain the content
of the archives.
.. _Flat Trees: https://flat-tree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
See the following for more:
* The Dat Protocol: `Merkle Tree`_
* The Dat Protocol: `Merkle Tree Stream`_
.. _Merkle Tree: https://datprotocol.github.io/book/ch01-02-merkle-tree.html
.. _Merkle Tree Stream: https://datprotocol.github.io/book/ch02-02-merkle-tree-stream.html
.. _documentation:
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