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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by hiccuphippo on Friday February 23, 2018 @08:03PM (#16450993)
I wonder what happened to primecoin. Could Bitcoin switch to such a PoW in the future?
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Re:Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made around... by undersuit on Friday February 23, 2018 @10:00PM (#16451374)
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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