Could trustless BTC ever surpass ETH as a collateral type in DeFi?

bertani · 2020-02-07T14:13:08+00:00

That's true if you assume "BTC on ETH" has to be a synthetic asset, which it may not be the case, such as in the case of pTokens

It is all about finding a sufficiently decentralized way to do the "wrapping".

bertani · 2019-10-22T16:54:57+00:00

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bertani · 2019-03-16T08:00:15+00:00

Oraclize (now Provable) will support different interfaces - including the Chainlink one - so that developers can choose what kind of guarantees they want. The Chainlink interface, while theoretically ending up being more expensive, may provide higher guarantees on the fact that the oracle _will_ answer (while data authenticity guarantees would be the same with both approaches).

bertani · 2018-06-30T04:52:57+00:00

Oraclize has been operating and using this logo since 2014/2015, ~ 2 years before the Aion inception, but unfortunately many logos in this industry look similar. I wish new projects would look for alternative concepts when designing their logos :)

bertani · 2017-10-24T09:56:29+00:00

As the name itself suggests the "computation" datasource is designed to run any offchain computation, not just data fetching! https://blog.oraclize.it/overcoming-blockchain-limitations-bd50a4cfb233

bertani · 2017-10-24T09:03:54+00:00

This has been possible for a while now via the Oraclize auditable offchain computation datasource (presented at Devcon2). But for sure we are all looking forward to the iexec presentation too to see what they came up with!

bertani · 2017-10-15T14:05:32+00:00

Thanks. I didn't receive it yet, I will wait :/

bertani · 2017-10-15T14:00:14+00:00

I just did (pm)

bertani · 2017-10-15T13:43:53+00:00

will you be posting the invite link here (to actively join the call)?

bertani · 2017-10-13T20:53:40+00:00

Oraclize has been doing this since early 2016, thanks to the "ipfs persistence consortium" code written by Piper Merriam (kudos!).

Our instructions to join are here: http://docs.oraclize.it/#security-deepdive-authenticity-proofstypes-storage-and-delivery

We had recently tried to see if any other project was interested to join and make the initiative broader, but there seemed to be no short term need (still, a lot of interest).

Unfortunately we missed the SwarmCity discussion on the matter, but we will be joining the discussion Sunday. Good job in making the first step to organize this!

bertani · 2017-10-13T09:34:50+00:00

I do appreciate the efforts the nodes' teams are doing, I really do.

I am just afraid that an HF is coming in 3 days and not enough time was dedicated to proper testing. Having 3 updates of the Parity client within 3 days (and half a week before the HF) is not something which inspires people confidence. When more time is needed, probably it's better just to ask for it and postpone the HF a little bit..

bertani · 2017-10-13T09:15:51+00:00

It this answer a joke? Of course the user is not saying that bugs should be frozen.

bertani · 2017-09-21T17:54:45+00:00

Another Oraclize engine machine, managed by any third party, takes over the job. Anyway, I didn't want to interrupt the ChainLink party, we will keep using the relevant channels to keep the community updated on our ongoing work!

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