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Why? Why do you speculate? The answer is easily accessible information. Smart contracts can be made immutable.

by siftrics 3y ago

lxgr 3y ago
So are they? Not everybody here is an expert in smart contracts.
- siftrics 3y ago
  The purpose of Hacker News is insightful discussion; it is not a place to pipe your stream of consciousness into the comment box. Refrain from speculating about things to which we know the answer. Just look it up and post the answer, instead. This is easily accessible information. Google it or ask an LLM. Don't just spew speculation into the void. You don't need to be a "smart contract expert" to use Google.
  - dotnet00 3y ago
    Yet you're the one not contributing to the discussion while someone else provided a much more interesting response to my speculation.
    - siftrics 3y ago
      In my very first reply to you, I wrote the answer: "smart contracts can be made immutable."
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      - baobabKoodaa 3y ago
        Please stop spreading misinformation. This does not answer the question that was presented, and the implication here is misleading. Just because smart contracts can be made immutable, doesn't mean contracts are commonly deployed that way, and even when they are, developers need a way to get people to use newer versions of immutable code (like uniswap v1 to v2).
- injeolmi_love 3y ago
  It depends on the blockchain and on the implementation whether a smart contract is immutable. Technically, all smart contracts running on EVM (the most popular smart contract virtual machine) are immutable. However, it is possible to call smart contract methods from a different smart contract while operating on the same state. Some smart contracts use this as a hack to get around immutability, by changing which smart contract is called by a proxy smart contract. Generally immutability is better for security reasons, but proxy contracts are useful if someone is testing in production. There have been cases of immutable contracts with bugs that locked millions of dollars of cryptocurrency with no recovery possible.

Why? Why do you speculate? The answer is easily accessible information. Smart contracts can be made immutable.

lxgr 3y ago

So are they? Not everybody here is an expert in smart contracts.

siftrics 3y ago
The purpose of Hacker News is insightful discussion; it is not a place to pipe your stream of consciousness into the comment box. Refrain from speculating about things to which we know the answer. Just look it up and post the answer, instead. This is easily accessible information. Google it or ask an LLM. Don't just spew speculation into the void. You don't need to be a "smart contract expert" to use Google.
- dotnet00 3y ago
  Yet you're the one not contributing to the discussion while someone else provided a much more interesting response to my speculation.
  - siftrics 3y ago
    In my very first reply to you, I wrote the answer: "smart contracts can be made immutable."
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
    - baobabKoodaa 3y ago
      Please stop spreading misinformation. This does not answer the question that was presented, and the implication here is misleading. Just because smart contracts can be made immutable, doesn't mean contracts are commonly deployed that way, and even when they are, developers need a way to get people to use newer versions of immutable code (like uniswap v1 to v2).
injeolmi_love 3y ago
It depends on the blockchain and on the implementation whether a smart contract is immutable. Technically, all smart contracts running on EVM (the most popular smart contract virtual machine) are immutable. However, it is possible to call smart contract methods from a different smart contract while operating on the same state. Some smart contracts use this as a hack to get around immutability, by changing which smart contract is called by a proxy smart contract. Generally immutability is better for security reasons, but proxy contracts are useful if someone is testing in production. There have been cases of immutable contracts with bugs that locked millions of dollars of cryptocurrency with no recovery possible.