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This article is the final part of a three-part series on the usage of Ethereum oracle contracts.
Part one was an introduction to getting the code set up, running, and testable with truffle framework. Part two took a look a bit into the code and used it as a launching point for discussion on some of Solidity’s code and design features.
Now, in this final part I’d like to ask the questions: what did we just do, and why? And try to provide some hopefully thought-provoking avenues of thought. The jury is still very much out on how the use of oracles relates to trustlessness, and what the word “trustlessness” as it related to blockchain, actually means in real-world usage. As we bring some of these ideas from their conceptual form to practical use, we will be forced to wrestle with and come to terms with questions like this. So
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