MerkleTree from 1 data node

[Dmdv]

Why merkle tree can't be from 1 node?

go-merkletree/merkle_tree.go

Line 104 in ccfc3d2

// Check if there are enough data blocks to build the tree.

Even if there's just one mode, we still can compute 1 node merkle tree.
What is the standard solution?

[txaty]

Hi! Thanks for using the library and providing feedbacks.

From the Bitcoin source code of Merkle Tree and this GitHub issue, seems like the standard solution is to make the solo node the root of the tree.

I thought it was meaningless and lack of use cases to construct a Merkle Tree with only one leaf so I enforced the number of leaves to be at least 2.