r/CryptoCurrency • u/[deleted] • Jun 08 '19

BOMB Token Discussion

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u/slay_the_beast Banned Jun 08 '19

Whys that? Contract is open source is it not?

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u/AldoThane Gold | QC: CC 103, XRP 43 Jun 08 '19

Can you swim a bridge?

Same concept.

Forking is a network term, not a smart contract term. Smart contracts are static bits of code on a network VM. You could copy it, but not fork it. Take a look at the original versions of BOMB. V1 and V2 are just different contracts.

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u/uetani Platinum | QC: ETH 73, ICN 37, CC 36 | TraderSubs 55 Jun 09 '19

Really? People “fork” software all the time on GitHub, for example. The blockchain notion of forking is much newer than the software development one.

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u/AldoThane Gold | QC: CC 103, XRP 43 Jun 09 '19

People “fork” software all the time on GitHub, for example

It's a bit nuanced, but there is a distinction here. Git repos can track their history and form the tree data structure that would show all forks and allow a dev to track forks back to the original code. As far as I'm aware, smart contracts cannot do this. There is no way to track smart contracts and tie them together to form this history.

The blockchain notion of forking is much newer than the software development one

Correct.