Functioning smart contract platform to settle HN-inspired wager?
Two HN commenters with different views about a certain event want to make a wager. Neither knows nor trusts the other. Seems like the perfect opportunity to use a "smart contract" to guarantee the eventual winner will in fact get paid. Anyone out there who can facilitate this? Thanks.
👤 gostsamo Accepted Answer ✓
The Long Now Foundation might be an option, but I think that they accept bets only under certain conditions.
Otherwise, you can lock the money for a long time with a block chain but you don't have reliable way to insure that the right person will get the money without a third person as a judge and effectively money depositor.
👤 leesalminen
Seems like the difficult part would be for the contract to determine a definitive outcome. Is the wager a true/false Boolean? Can you get the answer from some 3rd party API?