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		hiccuphippo on Feb 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitmain, the largest mining hardware company, made... I wonder what happened to primecoin. Could Bitcoin switch to such a PoW in the future?

undersuit on Feb 24, 2018 [–]

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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