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# Tangle

A tangle is a set of interlinked messages published by a peer. In computer science terms, it's an Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) with only one source node, where all the "nodes" are messages, and "edges" are links between messages.

```mermaid
graph RL;
  D--"A"-->C--"A"-->B--"A"-->A;
  F-->E-->C;
  G-->D & F;

style A color:red;
```

The root is...

The tangle is identified by the hash of its root message.