diff --git a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
index 644e54aaa..f86196dd6 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-chain/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ edition = "2018"
 thiserror = "1"
 byteorder = "1.3"
 chrono = "0.4"
-#hex = "0.4" This conflicts with tracing-subscriber?
+failure = "0.1"
+hex = "0.4"
 sha2 = "0.8"
diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/block.rs b/zebra-chain/src/block.rs
index 6e9bb0576..07c4c6ab1 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/block.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/block.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 //! Definitions of block datastructures.
 
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
-use std::io;
+use hex;
+use std::{fmt, io};
 
 use crate::merkle_tree::MerkleTreeRootHash;
 use crate::note_commitment_tree::SaplingNoteTreeRootHash;
@@ -21,9 +22,17 @@ use crate::transaction::Transaction;
 /// the direct bytes of the transactions as well as the header. So
 /// for now I want to call it a `BlockHeaderHash` because that's
 /// more explicit.
-#[derive(Copy, Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, Eq, PartialEq)]
 pub struct BlockHeaderHash(pub [u8; 32]);
 
+impl fmt::Debug for BlockHeaderHash {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_tuple("BlockHeaderHash")
+            .field(&hex::encode(&self.0))
+            .finish()
+    }
+}
+
 impl From<BlockHeader> for BlockHeaderHash {
     fn from(block_header: BlockHeader) -> Self {
         let mut hash_writer = Sha256dWriter::default();
@@ -141,3 +150,27 @@ impl ZcashDeserialize for Block {
         unimplemented!();
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+
+    use std::io::Write;
+
+    use super::BlockHeaderHash;
+
+    use crate::sha256d_writer::Sha256dWriter;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_blockheaderhash_debug() {
+        let preimage = b"foo bar baz";
+        let mut sha_writer = Sha256dWriter::default();
+        let _ = sha_writer.write_all(preimage);
+
+        let hash = BlockHeaderHash(sha_writer.finish());
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            format!("{:?}", hash),
+            "BlockHeaderHash(\"bf46b4b5030752fedac6f884976162bbfb29a9398f104a280b3e34d51b416631\")"
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/zebra-chain/src/sha256d_writer.rs b/zebra-chain/src/sha256d_writer.rs
index 5e835cdfc..ca1d71668 100644
--- a/zebra-chain/src/sha256d_writer.rs
+++ b/zebra-chain/src/sha256d_writer.rs
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ impl Write for Sha256dWriter {
         Ok(buf.len())
     }
 
+    fn write_all(&mut self, buf: &[u8]) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+        let mut length = 0;
+
+        while length != buf.len() {
+            length += buf.len();
+            self.hash.input(buf);
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
     fn flush(&mut self) -> std::io::Result<()> {
         Ok(())
     }