Aside: in the future where smart contracts are broadly usable, there needs to be some way (even centralized) to identify who’s trusted in such a contract and why you should trust them. In a normal office pool, it’s just Dave from accounting who runs the pool, but on the block chain that breaks down.
In centralized markets, one person determines the final market outcomes - which means there can be mistakes or outright manipulation. With Augur, we'll have thousands reporting on market outcomes using a one-of-a kind consensus based system and a unique token called REPutation. As a reporter, you'll report on events every two months and, in return, receive half of all fees in the system multiplied by the percent of REP you own.
At scale for brackets, at least, there's a natural centralized authority to trust on the matter, which is the organization running the tournament (NCAA). The official records are theirs (for better and for worse) and any API they produce would be the authority of record. That they likely don't have such an API is a different, interesting problem.
In that sense, using the ERC721 standard allowed me, a simple dev, to assertive/tokenize a simple digital good. Pretty fascinated by that possibility.
And yes, all written on ethereum. I can post the solidity source of people are interested.
Last year, I was in a pool with 10,000+ people and serious $ were on the line and I actively negotiated with other brackets to buy them, split ownership, etc.
A few questions/comments: - Would you also be able to sell a % of the bracket rather than just all of it? - Would you also build out tools to predict the current odds of the entries?
Meta mask is the equivalent for chrome.
Cipher allows you to store some eth (or other ERC20) tokens on your phone, then use them to play with disturbed apps (like this one).
https://etherscan.io/verifyContract2?a=0x100cc2fa0ea14bf9b07...
HN is a technical forum. Maybe 'March Madness on Ethereum' might be a better title / name.
