Can I clone a block within a chain? If so, how?

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There is a functionality I would like to implement inside one of my projects and I would like to know if there is a way of cloning a block within a chain.
asked Aug 9, 2018 by Yosh
edited Aug 13, 2018

1 Answer

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It's certainly not possible to clone a block in full, because part of each block is the link to the previous block via its hash, and there's no chance that will be identical for two different blocks in the same chain. Similarly, transactions reference each other in their inputs, so you can't clone transactions in full.

The best you can do is look at what is done in the transactions in one block, and create a new set of transactions to do the same thing.

But can I ask why you would want to do this?
answered Aug 13, 2018 by MultiChain
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