top | item 16295330 (no title) 0wing | 8 years ago What's the point of using the network then?Why not do everything more efficiently via the "oracle" server? discuss order hn newest chrischen|8 years ago This is the question that applies to about 99% of Dapps (at least the one that don't simply exist to serve other Dapps) so far. sova|8 years ago Yes, exactly -- how does having some sort of external intervention into the protocol make the protocol more robust? 0wing|8 years ago You misunderstand.If a smart contract relies on an external data source from a normal server (oracle), then why even take the risk of deploying the smart contract?If you're using an oracle for a data source you might as well do everything on a normal database. load replies (1)
chrischen|8 years ago This is the question that applies to about 99% of Dapps (at least the one that don't simply exist to serve other Dapps) so far.
sova|8 years ago Yes, exactly -- how does having some sort of external intervention into the protocol make the protocol more robust? 0wing|8 years ago You misunderstand.If a smart contract relies on an external data source from a normal server (oracle), then why even take the risk of deploying the smart contract?If you're using an oracle for a data source you might as well do everything on a normal database. load replies (1)
0wing|8 years ago You misunderstand.If a smart contract relies on an external data source from a normal server (oracle), then why even take the risk of deploying the smart contract?If you're using an oracle for a data source you might as well do everything on a normal database. load replies (1)
chrischen|8 years ago
sova|8 years ago
0wing|8 years ago
If a smart contract relies on an external data source from a normal server (oracle), then why even take the risk of deploying the smart contract?
If you're using an oracle for a data source you might as well do everything on a normal database.