Plain Strata B4: The Oracle Pattern
A blockchain is a strange kind of computer. It is extraordinarily good at agreeing on a shared record nobody can secretly alter, and almost comically bad at knowing anything about the world outside itself. It cannot check the price of a stock. It cannot read a website. It cannot tell whether an AI model produced a good answer. It is, in a real sense, blind. That is not a bug to be patched. It follows from how consensus works: the only facts allowed in are facts every machine can independently agree on, and no machine can independently agree on something it would have to go outside and look…
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