CryptoFinalFour
Games
sports bracket pools
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea for large pools where brackets are bought and split
From 1 comment
This is actually really interesting when you're dealing with large pools. Last year, I was in a pool with 10,000+ people and serious $ were on the line and I actively negotiated…
bmlevy9 on HN
Objections
Oracle requires trusting the contract owner to enter results
From 2 comments
What is the oracle for telling the blockchain which team won? Do we just trust the person who wrote this contract?
deweller on HNHow do you get the actual results into the Blockchain? And how can we trust that part?
PabloOsinaga on HN
Title is misleading since HN readers read crypto as cryptography
From 1 comment
Not crypto related. HN is a technical forum. Maybe 'March Madness on Ethereum' might be a better title / name.
nailer on HN
Requests
Verify the contract source on Etherscan
From 1 comment
Can you please verify your contract on etherscan.io. It makes it clear that the code is what you say it is and people can interact with your smart contract too.…
chandraonline on HN
Post the Solidity source code
From 1 comment
Hi, looks great! Yes, can you please post the solidity source code? I've just started learning solidity last week, and I like any understandable real world example I can get my…
jordanab on HN
Questions
How are real match results put on the blockchain and trusted?
From 2 comments
I know next to nothing about this domain (sports...), but I guess you need to have the outcome of the matches to make this work? How is that information entered onto the…
filleokus on HNHow do you get the actual results into the Blockchain? And how can we trust that part?
PabloOsinaga on HN
Is there an interface for trading these brackets?
From 1 comment
Is there an interface for trading these?
camjohnson26 on HN
Is this legal?
From 1 comment
IS this legal?
PabloOsinaga on HN
Alternatives named
MetaMask
From 1 comment
There is a chrome extension that also acts as a wallet and allows you to interact with dApps called meta mask (https://metamask.io/) Cipher is interesting because it's built for…
vincentchu on HN
Augur
From 1 comment
I was wondering how Augur got around the need for an oracle, since on that system (iiuc), one can create a prediction market around any publicly-observable outcome. In…
mbil on HN