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-rw-r--r--src/consensus/merkle.cpp2
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diff --git a/src/consensus/merkle.cpp b/src/consensus/merkle.cpp
index 843985e54c..241cc316a6 100644
--- a/src/consensus/merkle.cpp
+++ b/src/consensus/merkle.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
that the following merkle tree algorithm has a serious flaw related to
duplicate txids, resulting in a vulnerability (CVE-2012-2459).
- The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given time
+ The reason is that if the number of hashes in the list at a given level
is odd, the last one is duplicated before computing the next level (which
is unusual in Merkle trees). This results in certain sequences of
transactions leading to the same merkle root. For example, these two