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Episode 31: Blockchain 101: Blocks & Block Headers

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Is There a Way to Go Backwards to Get Back to the Original Piece of Data?

A cryptographic hash function is a one-way function. There is no way to extract the original data out of it. The better we get at writing these functions, the less likely it is that there will be a collision. That are two pieces of different data resulting in the same hash.

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