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Published inNov 2018
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Eric Traub
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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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Hashing the data

The next method that we are going to look at and add into our blockchain data structure is called hashBlock. What this hashBlock method will do is take in a block from our blockchain and hash its data into a fixed length string. This hashed data will appear randomly.

In essence, what we're going to do is pass some blocks of data into this hash method, and in return we'll get a fixed-length string, which will simply be a hash data that is generated from the data that we passed in or from the block that we passed.

To add the hashBlock method to our blockchain data structure, type the following line of code after our createNewTransaction method:

Blockchain.prototype.hashBlock = function(blockdata) {

}

In our hashBlock method, blockdata will be the input data of our block from which we want to generate the hash.

So, how can we take a block or blocks...

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Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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