Contracts/Oracles/Vms

[Kryztoval]

Mining and Decentralization

Although I generally agree with what @Kryztoval said, there is a small clarifying to be done there. Oracles are a means of providing real life external data inside the blockchain for Contracts to use. This does not have much to do with mining itself except that miners have to include the various Oracle’s transaction types in micro blocks. What is more interesting there - Oracles are services, so providers of those services are to be paid for their work. Every Oracle provider specifies the (min…

So how do we get to be oracles? That is what I am asking. because it seemed to be a way to get paid before.