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Re:How Blockchain Works by vec on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:33AM (#18076972)
Yes, but if you have a mechanism (either technical or institutional) that you trust to attach real-world goods to your blockchain in a sufficiently correct and tamper-resistant manner, why not just let that mechanism manage your ledger directly and skip the blockchain entirely?
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Re:How Blockchain Works by neospice on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:21PM (#18077520)
Those seem like two separate problems to me. The oracle reliably reports to the blockchain while the blockchain ensures that the historical record is tamper-proof.
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Re:How Blockchain Works by UncleMeat on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:07PM (#18079759)
But why can you trust the oracle to report correctly but not to maintain the record?
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