#[0]​ What do you think of this assertion: "Bitcoin’s Merkle trees previously had oddly broken behavior (CVE-2012-2459) and utilize a “naive” construction without type flags for leaf versus interior nodes, leading me to believe 'Satoshi is not an academic cryptographer' (the Bitcoin paper is also lacking in details around the structure of the “blockchain” which are typically present in academic papers on cryptographic protocols). If we take the hash-based structure of the “blockchain” independent of the use of a proof-of-work function, I think it largely resembles Merkle log proofs as used by systems like Certificate Transparency".