Steemit Crypto Academy Contest / S4W4 - Blockchain Forks

For me personally it is a contest that is a little difficult for me to understand, since it is not a field that I know. However, in the form of an effort to be able to learn more in the field of Crypto, it doesn't hurt for me to try the Week 4 contest in the Steemit Crypto Academy community. The fallacy that I present is purely because of my lack of understanding to be able to understand the true meaning.

Earlier I invited my seniors at Steemit to participate if you all like. they are @radjasalman, @alee75, @abialfatih, @ridwant, @sailawana, @liasteem, @sabarman, @chopper46, and many others of course.

Here's a little explanation that I might be able to give, hopefully it will be a lesson for me.

I try to define fork with a simple analogy related to my hobby in football, to help me to describe it, like this.

In Italy there is a city that has a big name with 2 very famous football clubs, the city is called the city of Milan. At first, the city of Milan has one football club called Ac Milan, but over time was born a new Club called Inter Milan was. These two clubs come from the same city, have the same goal, but with the way they play and also have their way to make them grow into two big clubs that come from the city of Milan. This means that in terms of clubs they have no relationship, but in terms of cities, they are the same. The city of Milan they have two branches of clubs that they can support, meaning that it depends on which club they like.

This fork is called a Fork, which is the separation of the same Crypto into two parts through programming code. Generally called the old version and the new version which is not interconnected between one and the other, because it has a different program. But can be run by using the same software when not fighting each other, this is where a new term arises that is Soft Fork or equation software used.

Recently, precisely this year Crypto Luna experienced a fork called A Hard Fork, previously Luna only had one name, namely, coin Luna itself. As the cryptocurrency collapsed, a census was taken to save and push Luna back from its worst rush, with disputes resulting in the decision to create a new type of Luna, hence the Hard Fork. Finally, a new type of Luna coin was issued called Terra Luna, while the old Luna remained under the name Luna Classic.

Although I am not sure about this opinion, what happened to Luna also happened to Steem and Hive, these two Crypto coins have blockchain-based platforms.

As far as I read and understand a Soft Fork is a way of updating software to make it much better and have much stricter rules and much better, meaning that here there is no Hard Fork in a Crypto or branching. So that updates that occur in the software used can still be carried out with the new software version, without the separation of the two cryptos caused by updates or changes in the devices used. An example is BTC, which has changed the blocks and rules it uses, without a hard Fork of the old BTC into its new version.

In general and simple as I mentioned above, Hard forks occur due to program changes that are carried out, so that they present new Crytpo from the same trunk but have no relationship between them, meaning that they are separate even though they are formed from the same branch.

Whereas a Soft Fork is an update of the software of a Crypto without separating into two different parts because a Soft Fork only changes or tightens a device towards the latest version. This means that the old version can be run using the new version of the software or vice versa.

Steem was originally a fork or copy of the BTC code, over time the developers of the block split into two different parts due to differences that I did not know much about. The branching of Steem into Hive is the beginning of the same thing, as is the case with Terra Luna and Luna Classic.

The Genesis block owned by Steem and Hive looks different from the two, even though they are connected in a blockchain. But still not connected or different has a different blog, this is the difference because the previous block is not connected with the new blog and also has a different value.

This is all I can explain, this is purely the fruit of my thinking based on my understanding of this little, hopefully, mistakes can be corrected as a lesson for me personally. best regards to all of you.

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