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SchellingCoin revives Vitalik’s original Ethereum oracle concept: a minimal-trust data feed where participants are rewarded for reporting the consensus truth.

Ethereum Katılım Eylül 2025
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SchellingCoin@scoineth·
crazy how one of ethereum’s earliest ideas was literally about aligning incentives around truth fast forward and people are still chasing narratives without realizing this is the narrative it’s simple, it’s understandable, and it already has history behind it sometimes that’s all a coin needs SchellingCoin
Andy@cryptowanderer

I did a lot of re-reading in prep for a call with @VitalikButerin and I just want to leave one line here which sums it all up. 2014 Vitalik was lit: "The truth is arguably the most powerful Schelling point out there." blog.ethereum.org/2014/03/28/sch…

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$SC - 0xC5F333D74424D1fB907507077E3759cc92cFF2D1
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SchellingCoin@scoineth·
Most people still do not realize that SchellingCoin $SC was not some random idea. It was one of the earliest concepts written by Vitalik before Ethereum even became what it is today. Back in 2014, Vitalik described SchellingCoin as a "minimal-trust universal data feed" where people are rewarded for submitting the answer they believe everyone else will recognize as true. In other words: consensus becomes the oracle. (Ethereum Foundation Blog) That single idea ended up becoming the philosophical foundation for almost everything that came after: • decentralized oracles • prediction markets • optimistic systems • crypto courts • truth-by-consensus mechanisms Years before Chainlink, UMA, Kleros, Polymarket, or modern oracle networks existed, the blueprint was already there. Now there is finally a token reviving that original Ethereum-era concept. $SC is not trying to invent a new narrative out of thin air. It is bringing back one of the oldest and most important ideas in crypto: that truth itself can be coordinated economically. The market loves to chase whatever is newest. But sometimes the strongest narrative is the one that existed before the market was even ready for it. Vitalik posted it himself. The Reddit thread is still there. The Ethereum blog is still there. And the idea is still just as powerful today as it was 12 years ago. (Ethereum Foundation Blog) reddit.com/r/ethereum/com…
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SchellingCoin@scoineth·
CTO paid and approved. Yes, we are the OG ca. 1 year and 21 days old.
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