diff --git a/dagger/blocktype.nim b/dagger/blocktype.nim
index 8f201fdd..c4e65afd 100644
--- a/dagger/blocktype.nim
+++ b/dagger/blocktype.nim
@@ -34,17 +34,6 @@ func new*(
     cid: Cid.init(version, codec, hash).get(),
     data: @data)
 
-func new*(
-  T: type Block,
-  data: openArray[byte] = [],
-  version = CIDv1,
-  hcodec = multiCodec("sha2-256"),
-  codec = multiCodec("raw")): ?!T =
-  let hash =  MultiHash.digest($hcodec, data).get()
-  success Block(
-    cid: Cid.init(version, codec, hash).get(),
-    data: @data)
-
 func new*(
   T: type Block,
   cid: Cid,
diff --git a/tests/dagger/dataset.nim b/tests/dagger/dataset.nim
deleted file mode 100644
index ab01ef03..00000000
--- a/tests/dagger/dataset.nim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-import std/sequtils
-
-import pkg/chronos
-import pkg/asynctest
-import pkg/stew/results
-import pkg/dagger/chunker
-import pkg/dagger/merkletree
-import pkg/stew/byteutils
-import pkg/dagger/p2p/rng
-import pkg/dagger/blocktype as bt
-
-suite "Data set":
-
-  test "Make from Blocks":
-    let
-      chunker = newRandomChunker(Rng.instance(), size = 256*3, chunkSize = 256)
-      blocks = chunker.mapIt( bt.Block.new(it) )
-
-    let merkle = MerkleTreeRef.fromBlocks(blocks)
-