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		Kiro on Dec 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework What's the point of building the app on Ethereum if the source (the Oracle) is centralized anyway?

philfrasty on Dec 15, 2017 [–]

There are implementations like Chainlink running decentralized oracles. At the end of the day, the data-source is still the bottleneck but they try to discourage bad actors through e.g. reputation mechanisms.

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