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by hiccuphippo 3033 days ago
I wonder what happened to primecoin. Could Bitcoin switch to such a PoW in the future?
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undersuit 3033 days ago
Switch, no. The ASIC miners would never vote for something that would destroy half of their investment. A fork could totally happen. That's what Bitcoin Gold did by forking the blockchain to using the Equihash algorithm.
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