Before the advent of alternative blockchains such as Ethereum, the future of decentralization was all in the hands of Bitcoin. Together with Nakamoto itself, early developers were trying to leverage Bitcoin potential to decentralize traditionally centralized applications. However, being Bitcoin a decentralized machine, available non-trustless oracles were considered unsuitable. Therefore, strategies had to be elaborated to solve the so-called oracle problem in the newborn scenario. By interviewing early developers and crawling early forums and repositories, this paper aims to retrace and reconstruct the chain of events and contributions that gave birth to oracles on Bitcoin. The evolution of early trust models and approaches to solving the oracle problem is also outlined. Analyzing technical and social barriers to building oracles on Bitcoin, the transition to Ethereum will also be discussed.
翻译:在诸如Etheum等替代障碍出现之前,权力下放的未来完全掌握在Bitcoin手中。与中本本身一起,早期开发者正试图利用Bitcoin的潜力来分散传统的集中应用;然而,由于Bitcoin是一个分散的机器,现有非无信托的神器被认为不合适。因此,必须制定战略来解决新生儿情况中的所谓神器问题。通过采访早期开发者和爬行的早期论坛和储存库,本文件旨在收回并重建Bitcoin上产生神器的事件和贡献链。还概述了早期信任模式的演变和解决神器问题的方法。还将讨论分析在Bitcoin上建造神器的技术和社会障碍,从而向Etheerum过渡的问题。