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Binance To Start Proof Of Reserves For Full Transparency – CZ

This comes after CZ announced that Binance would be acquiring its rival FTX to safeguard the liquidity crunch it is facing due to the mass withdrawal of funds.
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Binance To Start Proof Of Reserves For Full Transparency – CZ

In latest developments, Binance CEO CZ, has recommended that all crypto exchanges should do merkle-tree proof-of-reserves. He further suggested that crypto exchanges should not run on fractional reserves, unlike banks.

CZ reassured his 7.3 million Twitter followers that Binance would also start proof-of-reserves for full transparency in order to avoid future doubts and concerns about the reserve balance.

This comes after CZ announced later today, that Binance would be acquiring its rival FTX to safeguard the liquidity crunch it’s facing due to the mass withdrawal of funds.

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What is a Merkle-tree?

A Merkle tree, commonly referred to as a Hash tree, is a type of data structure used for data synchronization and verification. It is a tree data structure where each non-leaf node is a hash of its child nodes. It maintains data integrity and uses hash functions for this purpose.

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Merkle-tree Applications:

Merkle trees are useful in distributed systems where the same data should exist in multiple places. It can be used to check inconsistencies. And therefore, Merkle-trees find their profound use in bitcoin and blockchain as well.

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Pratik Bhuyan

Pratik has been a crypto evangelist since 2016 & been through almost all that crypto has to offer. Be it the ICO boom, bear markets of 2018, Bitcoin halving to till now - he has seen it all.

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