Oracles, Doug von Kohorn and Jeff Rosen from Rhombus

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We speak about the problem around connecting smart contracts to real world data, how oracles solve that problem and the gives and takes around oracles. We walk through some example oracles in gold pricing data and prediction markets. We finally wrap up with an interview with Jeff Rosen and Doug von Kohorn, founders at Rhombus, where we discuss their approach and solution to the oracle problem.

Topics:

Faizaan's thoughts on the ETHDenver event
How we should think about oracles
The oracle problem
What decentralization is from the oracle perspective
Centralized oracles
Cryptographic annotations
What TLSnotary and Town Crier does
Astraea by consensus
Manipulation resistance
What Rhombus is
What makes them different from other oracle providers in the Ethereum ecosystem
Examples of the kind of enterprise use-cases they see
On providing the right price / data
How prices of assets completely delisted affects what happens to smart contracts / things
Underwriting insurance policies
Some areas they're interested in that they think might require more transparency
Their thoughts around working with prediction markets
Difference between Chainlink and Rhombus
How they're doing sales right now
Their background
What got them interested in the oracle space
How they're funded right now
What they're excited about for the rest of the year
What the lighthouse oracle is and its use

Links: Rhombus - https://rhombus.network/ Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/ r/progresspics - https://www.reddit.com/r/progresspics/ myfitnesspal - https://www.myfitnesspal.com/ Strava - https://www.strava.com/ The State of Decentralized Oracles - https://media.consensys.net/the-state-of-decentralized-oracles-df45bf0dc51d TLSnotary - https://tlsnotary.org/TLSNotary.pdf Town Crier - https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/168.pdf Astraea: A Decentralized Blockchain Oracle - https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00528 OpenLaw - https://openlaw.io/ Ethereum - https://www.ethereum.org/ Chicago Mercantile Exchange - https://www.cmegroup.com/ Coinbase - https://pro.coinbase.com/ Gemini - https://gemini.com/ Chainlink - https://chain.link/ ConsenSys - https://consensys.net/ Getcoin - https://getcoin.site/

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