This is a performance regression, but will also spare the types directory
from knowing about RFC 6962, which is a more correct abstraction. For txs
this performance hit will be fixed soon with #2603. For evidence, the
performance impact is negligible due to it being capped at a small number.
* crypto/merkle: Remove byter in favor of plain byte slices
This PR is fully backwards compatible in terms of function output!
(The Go API differs though) The only test case changes was to refactor
it to be table driven.
* Update godocs per review comments
