>>17012584
I'm begging you, please honestly and compassionately consider a future in which chainlink oracle network is allowed to grow to a point it can't be feasibly shut down by our government.
WE ARE LITERALLY a single incremental advancement in big data analysis (aka ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) away from an unstoppable network of anonymous, smart kill contracts.
You know those TOR "darknet" drug markets that are constantly popping up faster than they can be shut down? They're all going to add a SMART HITMAN tab to the marketplace, in which people can review the contracts offered on the market, research the target, and buy it (down payment, returned if successful), and KILL the target within the described timeframe (extensions could obviously be purchased, in the case you kill them with only minutes on the clock, etc). THIS IS OUR DARK FUTURE.
>WHAT DOES CHAINLINK DO?
Chainlink network offers guaranteed integrity and correctness of data to smart contracts, node operators stake $LINK as collateral. Persons creating important contracts would be smart to run it on an oracle with greater or equal value of $LINK staked as collateral.
>WHY IS THIS DANGEROUS?
Once an algorithm is developed that can with great confidence determine if a person (who exists on paper, SSN etc realistically) is alive or dead by interfacing with the infinite data ocean from .. social media, news, government databases, smart security cameras, public databases, the entire Internet of Things, etc .. Chainlink will be used to connect and guarantee that data by the decentralized Chainlink oracle network.
>Why would a Chainlink node operator allow kill contracts on their node?
CHINA! HELLO? Most BTC mining nodes are in China, you think they won't be all over this? You think Chinese would not happily take 10% cut of $10k kill contracts that are actually happening in America?
WE STILL HAVE TIME TO SHUT IT DOWN. STOP THE ORACLE NETWORK. WE STILL HAVE TIME.