# merkle-tree-stream

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## A stream that generates a merkle tree based on the incoming data

```sh
$ pip install merkle-tree-stream
```

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.