MAST
How Will MAST Affect Litecoin?
It'll increase its speed, scalability, privacy.
What Will Mast Do Exactly?
MAST will allow nodes to interact with “Merkel Trees” created within the LTC blockchain. Below is a recreation from Jeremy Rubin’s paper (referenced in the source section) of what a Merkel Tree is:
Top Layer: ABCDz=ABz+CDz
Mid-Layer: ABz=A+B CDz=C+D
Bottom Layer: A B C D
*A, B, C, D are all data.
*z is called a Merkel Root
Nodes read the top of the Merkel Tree along with the Merkel Root. It can check the whole tree to see if the specific data that’s being requested is actually somewhere in the Merkle Tree. In other words, the Merkel Root “z” allows you to see that the transaction ABz occurred. The cool thing about Merkel Trees is that it ONLY reveals that information. It does not need to reveal that CDz was also part of the Merkel Tree. This is the increased privacy that MAST provides.
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