ethEra at Merry Merkle Tree

It’s that time of the year when Christmas trees light up the night sky and bring holiday cheer but this year Toronto’s cryptocurrency users gathered around a different kind of tree to get into the holiday spirit: a Merkle tree.

“We thought it was a funny pun,” Robbie Bent, Merry Merkle Tree event organizer and COO of cryptocurrency company Truebit, told CBC Toronto.