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Re:Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet by molsongolden on Saturday February 20, 2021 @02:48AM (#26202403)
Lots of work happening now on decentralized oracles to solve this problem.
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Re:Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet by joosters on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:29AM (#26202597)
I guess that’s an admission that this current blockchain concept is flawed as it stands, right? I’ve yet to see any truly decentralised oracle either...
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Re:Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet by nigerian-craft on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:44AM (#26202677)
> I’ve yet to see any truly decentralised oracle

These are relatively common in theory and practice.

- uniswap v2 oracles: https://uniswap.org/docs/v2/core-concepts/oracles/

- chainlink: https://docs.chain.link/docs/using-chainlink-reference-contr...

- schelling point oracles: https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/schellingcoin-a-minimal...

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