The obvious question is why involve a blockchain at all. I don't think there is a coherent answer to that question.
The second is why are we asking people to poll for information instead of broadcasting it to them via something like webhooks? It's much easier to notify people of updates rather than have them constantly ask for updates.
All things that work just fine without the blockchain.
Blockchains only solve one problem: when two or more parties don't trust each other, and do not have the protections of the legal system (trying to be anonymous or conducting illegal acts). They will forever remain a solution in search of a problem.
Regardless how far up the hype curve you think blockchain is, it's interesting that AP is leveraging its reputation to commit to a project in this emerging tech.
Idea is that oracles are that bridge between the physical and the blockchain worlds, and it's these interfaces that are always the problem for the blockchain idealists. Playing that bridge role relies on being a trusted source so people believe you won't just run away with their funds... a startup doesn't start with the reputation needed to pull that off, but someone like AP does. So it's an interesting competitive advantage for someone like AP to do this.
* prediction markets
* bettings
* games
* distributed autonomous organization (DAO) governance
* minting nun-fungible tokens such as commemorative coins
* anything else you could program
Usage: 1.sh [2-letter state abbrev uppercase]
Example: 1.sh PA
cat > 1.sh
#!/bin/sh
x=$(curl https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2020/11/us-general-election-data/prod/last_updated.json|sed -n '/"time":/{s/{"time":"//;s/"}//;p;}')
curl https://interactive.guim.co.uk/2020/11/us-general-election-data/prod/data-out/$x/president_details.json|sed 's/.*\"'"$1"'\"://;s/\"[A-Z][A-Z]\":.*//;s/,/\
/g;s/"candidates":\[//;' ^DEthereum is simply acting as a complicated API for AP election data in this use case.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ap-and-everipedia-t...