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Re:Ethereum is Doomed (2016) by cslarson on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:28PM (#18914098)
so is Augur an oracle that makes smart contracts interesting again? MakerDAO uses an oracle for the ETH/USD price as part of is DAI system for creating a decentralised $-pegged token. It seems like there are ways to solve the issue of getting real world information into Ethereum.
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Re:Ethereum is Doomed (2016) by beaner on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:49PM (#18914312)
Yeah, but the point is sort of that the interesting ones are not simply "code is law," since there is an element of trust involved in them. They're code + human oracles.
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