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Re:Ethereum programming for web developers by WJW on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:11PM (#16181497)
While I would love for this to be a thing, most cryptocurrency enthusiasts seem to distrust anything and everyone. How would one develop an oracle trusted enough that it would be accurate while not being vulnerable to sudden betrayals? There are for example plenty of stories from Eve Online (closest example of a lawless/trustless universe) where a very trusted middleman suddenly changed behavior when the benefits became great enough.

Especially when a cryptocoin includes strong anonymity, betrayal has very low downside since no retribution would be possible. However even if such anonymity is not present, it may not be possible to get retribution if the entity on the other side is (for example) the mafia.

Re:Ethereum programming for web developers by koolba on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:26PM (#16182164)
Do you have a link for the Eve Online example?
Re:Ethereum programming for web developers by wrinkl3 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:35PM (#16182247)
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/09/eve-online-bank-scand...

This is a classic example in which a user ran an in-game bank for some time, before making away with all of his clients assets.