Programming Throwdown Episode 79 Technical Arguments.

Take it away, Jason. Hey, hey everybody so this is going to be an

interesting episode you know we uh you know we do every episode in one take and this is going to be

no exception but uh this is going to have it's going to be a pretty wild one so you know usually

we're covering a language we're interviewing somebody and you know we've talked to them beforehand so we kind of, you know, usually we're covering a language. We're interviewing somebody and,

you know, we've talked to them beforehand, so we kind of know, you know, they're subject matter

expert in X and we know X pretty well. This is going to be something pretty different. We're

going to talk about arguing, you know, not in general, although that might come up, like, more like, I guess, philosophical stuff, but really about arguing at work.

We've both been in tech for a while.

I've seen a lot of the canonical arguments.

We'll kind of go through a lot of them.

But I want to talk about blockchain.

I actually took the time to really understand how blockchain works.

So I'll spend a couple of minutes on that, like the actual technology.

And Patrick, you can kind of fact check me on this.

But basically, you know, when we did the blockchain episode with Amy Wan a while back,

I had just started learning about blockchain.

And one of the things I asked was sort of how do you keep somebody from just saying,

oh, everyone gave me a million dollars, right?

And what I learned is under the hood, there's this thing called basically a hash list.

I think it's also called a Merkel tree or whatever, but the important takeaway is, you know, in this chain of events, the every chain has the hash of the block before it.

And so what that means is, you know, you take that,

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