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Re:The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2 by phire on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:19PM (#14953770)
Yeah, it's a deterministic tree of hashes.

Each leaf is the hash of a 16KB chunk. On the next layer up you have a series of nodes which are the hashes of the two leafs below it hashed together.

You add enough layers until you get a single root hash at the root of the tree.

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