What do you think people would do for on-chain oracles if ESPN started publishing game results onto Ethereum? I’ll tell you: people would just use the ESPN scores. They’d use them instead of Chainlink or Augur or any of these other supposedly decentralized oracles, because they’d trust ESPN’s scores. This would be true even if ESPN expressly disavowed any legal liability for those scores!
Why? Why would people trust ESPN even though it’s not decentralized? (Saying it out loud, it suddenly sounds like a stupid question.)
Everyone knows why we trust ESPN’s scores: because of reputation.
"Every one in the world will just run a Chainlink node...trust me bro."
Nathaniel Johnson
Now that's based.
Austin James
>if ESPN started publishing game results onto Ethereum Protip: you need an oracle to do that.
Also, one of the major security features that's being worked on is making sure the oracle does not know what data he is processing (e.g. enclaves, mixicles, ...). Why? Because if the oracle knows what data is being processed, that makes it easier and/or more enticing to manipulate it. So data sources running their own Chainlink oracle is certainly possible, but might not always be desired.
Jose Cox
I mean, that's exactly what almost every project running oracles in the blockchain have been doing, big and small. I don't know why you think they wouldn't.
Jayden Howard
>you need an oracle to do that you literally don't
Yeah most of these crypto projects are trying to solve problems that 99.9% of people don't perceive as problems. I bought 35,000 link in the ico but only because I knew it would go up in value not because I believe in 10 years everything will actually be running on these oracles. 99.9% of people making an app will just use an api outside of ethereum and the one time in 5 years it shows false data they just apologize to their customers and move on because it's not a critical application their data is being used for.
Charles Cox
Ethereum is very based Chainlink is super cringe MakerDAO is a piece of shit Fuck you all
Josiah Evans
It's no use using logic on cultists, OP. But yes, corporations and large institutions (the only parties that would potentially use expensive smart contracts) will want to use trusted parties for their data feeds, putting a decentralized network of nodes inbetween just ADDS an expensive middleman.
Colton Wilson
It's almost as if Chainlink allows ESPN to quickly sell to all blockchain platforms by selling API data directly to Chainlink nodes or becoming a node themselves. It's almost as if Chainlink is the gateway for all existing business models and data providers to integrate with blockchain technology simply by becoming compatible with Chainlink. Gee whiz.
Lincoln Torres
>you literally don't Prove it
Aaron Rodriguez
imagine being this dumb
Cameron Sanders
If ethereum gets popular enough that real dapps that anyone actually cares about exist on it, why wouldn't ESPN publish directly to the Ethereum chain? With gas becoming cheaper, it won't be hard or expensive to do.
Joshua Martin
why wouldnt companies just develop their own OSs and tools like word? they would save money
function getScore() public view returns (uint256) { return theScore(); }
function updateScore(uint256 newScore) onlyESPN public returns (bool) { theScore = newScore; emit scoreUpdated(theScore); return true; }
Grayson Kelly
wtf is this nerd shit lmao go talk to a robot LINK $1k EOY
Christopher Morris
The data being public makes chainlink completely useless. I could use the ESPN API to get scores, why do I give a fuck about also paying to use a chainlink API?
Nolan Scott
>I don't know what 'setInfo' is, but I'm talking out of my ass about how you need oracles to publish data onto a blockchain the obsolete stete
Michael Carter
You dumbfuck all you’re doing in that code is limiting who can access a method. He was talking about hiding implementation and sensitive data. Something you cannot do on-chain as everything is visible.
Jaxon Morales
> develop new operating system meanwhile non-idiots can use etherscan.io in a fucking web browser
Isaac Reyes
> ESPN Scores > Sensitive Data
What the fuck is sensitive about sports scores, they are broadcast on national television.
Easton Carter
>What is this thinking and learning shit user, I...
Noah Wright
This. There's no reason not to put it directly on chain. It's public anyway. It's even better if it's easily seen.
>What do you think people would do for on-chain oracles if ESPN >ESPN Clearly this is the maximum scope of data for link. Fucking idiot.
Thomas Hill
Google will never work Companies will make their own search engines
Cameron Cox
>you literally don't Yes you do.
Yes, that's literally the code for an oracle (a centralized one if only ESPN itself is running it). You have no idea what you're doing lmao.
Now you have to add guaranteed uptime (protip: a centralized oracle will crap out). Also: you have to add security (protip: a centralized oracle will ruin the whole system if faulty). The solution: DEcentralization.
And then there are the other security measures being developed, like enclaves (SGX) or mixicles. For example: if the oracle knows what data is being transmitted it's much more tempting/easy to tamper with it).
Plus, if everyone were writing their own code you would have to audit every single oracle code. Much more secure and easy to use a known standard. For instance in complex transactions with several sources at different contract levels; if everyone uses their own code it just gets messy.
Chase Perez
>an oracle is an API lmao, that's like saying "a car is a road".
This is the level of fud right now.
Daniel Lewis
>if you can see it, it's not sensitive
You have to be vaping bleach to be this retarded.
Jacob Mitchell
Anybody who believes in Chainlink as an actual project is literally a brainwashed idiot.
You buy Chainlink bevause the whitepapers and "projects" in crypto serve as signals for which coins are going to pump more in value, not because you actually believe its ever going to work. The whole crypto is a play pretend game of speculation on inherently worthless coins but we pretend the whitepapers and how solid the project seems on paper means something.
Nicholas Davis
>Anybody who believes in Chainlink as an actual project is literally a brainwashed idiot. So Google Cloud, Oracle, and ETH for instance are brainwashed idiots. Got it. Thanks for warning us user.
Wyatt Rogers
Fake partnerships
Leo Johnson
>partnerships were announced by Google Cloud, Oracle, and ETH first >"they're fake" k
Eli Phillips
Oh you sweet summer child. Big corporations will constantly engage with whatever gives the appearance of future "cutting edge" tech. The R&D head has to justify his salary and the company must present the picture of being on top of future tech to its stakeholders. 99% of this is PR and nothing comes of it.
