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Block Chain

Instructions

Create a function named blockChain that creates a block in your very own block chain. It takes 2 arguments:

• data: any valid JSON data.
• prev: the previous block, if no block are given it should use the genesis block: { index: 0, hash: '0' }.

A block must have the following properties:

• index
• hash: a computed hash using the hashCode function provided. You will need to pass it a concatenation of the block's index, the previous block's hash and the block's stringified data.
• data: any valid JSON object.
• prev: the previous block.
• chain: a function that accepts data as an argument, and creates the next block with it.

Examples

const first = blockChain({ a: 1 })
console.log(first.index) //           -> 1
console.log(first.data) //            -> { a: 1 }
console.log(first.prev) //            -> { index: 0, hash: "0" }
console.log(first.hash) //            -> '1103f27'
console.log(hashCode('10{"a":1}')) // -> '1103f27'

const second = first.chain({ hello: 'world' })
console.log(second.hash) //                           -> '18drvvc'
console.log(hashCode('21103f27{"hello":"world"}')) // -> '18drvvc'

const chain = second
  .chain({ value: 4455 })
  .chain({ some: 'data' })
  .chain({ cool: 'stuff' })

const fork = second
  .chain({ value: 335 })
  .chain({ some: 'data' })
  .chain({ cool: 'stuff' })

console.log(chain.hash) //  -> '1qr3qfs'
console.log(fork.hash) //   -> '1x9gsc1'
console.log(chain.index) // -> 5
console.log(fork.index) //  -> 5

Notions

• JSON.stringify

Code provided

The provided code will be added to your solution, and does not need to be submitted.

const hashCode = str =>
  (
    [...str].reduce((h, c) => (h = (h << 5) - h + c.charCodeAt(0)) & h, 0) >>> 0
  ).toString(36)