The Oracle problem
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Blockchain nodes are designed to perform standardized and uniform operations to generate consensus on a set of transactions (solving the double-spend problem). However, they are not suited to answer subjective questions about probabilistic real-world data, as blockchain nodes do not always have access to the same information, making generating consensus on even the most basic data requests challenging and source quality enforcement impossible.