THEY DONT WANT YOU IN THEIR CLUB
In 2015 Emin Sirer and his team recieved 3 million US dollars as a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to research cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts.
Emin Sirer is from Cornell University, and became part of the team that build Town Crier.
Town Crier got aqcuired by Chain.Link
NSF = Federal Institution, US Government:
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense..." NSF is vital because we support basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
With an annual budget of $8.1 billion (FY 2019), we are the funding source for approximately 24 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Chainlink not mentioned
The more you dig, the more I feel like some big corporations looked into using smart contracts pre-2016, then discovered they needed an oracle, looked for the guy that was working on it at the time, and could only find Sergey with SmartContract.com.
They called the Serg, and they sat together and pondered: How can we make this enterprise-grade and secure? And Sergey who was already pondering on this question, said: we need a decentralized network. So they said: Let´s do an ICO for oracles, VC investors (Us) will buy up 90%, share some tokens with some neets to inspire them to run nodes, and lets get this rolling.
Wait, Serg, how do we make this also private-optional? Serg: we need TEE nodes. Big Boys: Lets call Cornell, Ari Juels works there, best mind in computer science, give him some grants and get that rolling too. Oh, by the way, co-write the WP with Ari, okay, you will be "purchasing" his project later on. wink wink...
Delicious nothing burger
Chainlink did not exist in 2015
Cope
This can be something ,wtf?
autist anons I need confirmation
Based, appreciate the breadcrumbs user, keep up the good work.
or in reality
>try and make a scam ICO hoping to scam pajeets and chinks
>idea so good (and impossible) it attracts turbo autist sub 50 IQ retards from biz
>afraid for life so have to go through
>waste 2 years and make some half assed centralized abomination