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Simon Van Gelder
now this service requires trust
Simon Van Gelder
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More or less trust than a gaggle of news outlets?
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more. the news outlets are huge corps with their own business model, very hard to compromise & don't care about your conditional contract. the dedicated service is a point of failure.
Simon Van Gelder
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So the smart contracts will poll all news sources and take the average? The mean? You've introduced multiple points of failure in order to avoid using a single secured source of data.
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how about n agreeing oracles, chosen by the contracting parties ? or do you prefer m out of n? not a point of failure. but go ahead, build that secure source. more options, better.
Simon Van Gelder
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Having this type of logic within a TX's opcodes just seems like the wrong place for it. How would a smart contracts be validated after the fact if an outcome is changed due to ruling?