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by damnyou 2573 days ago
The article is correct that you still need oracles (of course you do), but wrong in saying that blockchains are therefore useless.

A better article would be more intellectually curious! For example, it might talk about the sorts of oracles blockchains could enable and how much of a burden they need to bear with and without blockchains.

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Shouldn’t blockchain proponents be the ones to come up with such an article?

The article specifically calls out all the use cases for which blockchains have been proposed as a solution. And none of those solutions discussed the need for oracles or discussed “what sorts of oracles they would enable”.