How to Secure Accurate Measurements in a Decentralized System Without Oracles

About this episode

The episode discusses how to secure accurate measurements in decentralized systems without relying on oracles.

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-secure-accurate-measurements-in-a-decentralized-system-without-oracles . Blockchains are great at consensus over digital state. They are bad at directly observing physical reality: the price of a liter of bottled water. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3 . You can also check exclusive content about #blockchain-oracles , #programmable-money , #water-coin , #stablecoin-design , #decentralized-pricing-systems , #cross-currency-pricing , #human-validated-data , #price-feed-mechanisms , and more. This story was written by: @chris127 . Learn more about this writer by checking @chris127's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com . O Coin needs two kinds of truth in code: (1) local water price in each fiat lane where we can observe it, and (2) a connected graph of cross-country references so every currency lane stays defined and checkable even when a direct measurement round fails. We do that by treating the network as a measurement scheduler: the chain picks who gets invited not only to fight spam, but to fill geographic holes, close FX triangles…

Topics covered

• decentralized systems
• blockchain
• measurement
• oracles
• pricing systems

Keywords

• blockchain
• decentralized pricing
• water price
• measurement scheduler
• cross-country references

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