Lifetime issue with 'indicate the anonymous lifetime: `<'_>`'

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Thanks all for the help so far.
I have this below struct, and I need it to implement display. It seems that, because I added a lifetime param to Blockchain, the display function no longer compiles, and my error is

152 | impl Display for Blockchain {
    |                  ^^^^^^^^^^- help: indicate the anonymous lifetime: `<'_>`
    |
    = note: assuming a `'static` lifetime...


#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
pub struct Blockchain <'lt> {
    #[serde(skip)]
    pub trans_observers: HashMap<&'lt Transaction, OnTransactionSettled>,
    #[serde(skip)]
    pub block_observers: Vec<OnBlockEvent>,
    pub genesis_block: GenesisBlock,
    pub blocks: Vec<Block>,
}

impl Display for Blockchain {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        let json = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&self).expect("json format error");
        write!(f, "{}", json)
    }
}

I spent almost an hour now on this. Can someone explain to me what's going on?

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It’s telling you to write that code, <‘_> at the position it’s showing, indicating an anonymous lifetime being passed to the type in that impl block.

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OMG! I swear I did this and it then told me it was unnecessary!!!!

I am going to go hide in shame!

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Coding can be cruel, there are always more ways to make the compiler mad.

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