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by warkdarrior 963 days ago
> Regarding Bitcoin [...] the network is increasingly moving [...] more efficient mining practices

Has Bitcoin changed its mining protocol?

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It is and always will be Hashcash with SHA256d as hash function.
That's an example of sunk cost fallacy, where the miners have spent so much money (real dollars, not bitcoin) on otherwise useless ASICs that they obstruct any attempts at progress.
That's not a sunk cost fallacy, that's just sunk cost.