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Published inNov 2018
Reading LevelIntermediate
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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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Building the chainIsValid method

Let's start building the consensus algorithm by creating a new method called chainIsValid. This method will validate whether or not a chain is legitimate. Let's get started with building this method:

  1. In the blockchain.js file, after the proofOfWork method, let's define the method as follows:
Blockchain.prototype.chainIsValid = function() {

}
  1. Now, this method will take in a blockchain as an argument, and will return to us whether the blockchain is valid or not:
Blockchain.prototype.chainIsValid = function(blockchain) {

}

We're going to use this chainIsValid method to validate the other chains inside of the network when we are comparing them to the chain that is hosted on the current node. In order to validate that the blockchain is legitimate, we're simply going to iterate through every block inside of the blockchain...

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Eric Traub

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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