Coin vs Token!?
Coin/Token — has their own blockchain.
So if you think of a shelf of books, you’ll have bitcoin, ethereum, ripple as the title. And you will have to abide to their rules set in these books. It’s their own language.
Token is a smart contract written under the predefined rules by the languages you choose to use. There are coins that offer you the option to write a contract with their language such as Ethereum, but Bitcoin and Ripple doesn’t.
Basically, a contract is exactly the same as the contract we see in our daily lives.
On a mobile contract, you and the mobile contract will define
- basic information
- rules that both of you have to abide to
- consequences if you don’t
Unlike normal contract with you have it on paper, you can save it on a blockchain which the majority have accepted and saved it down on their database.