Bitcoin Pluggable Consensus with Algorand?

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Algorand is an extremely promising consensus protocol -- Could Bitcoin be configured to use Algorand?

Nathan Aw

Posted 2019-01-22T15:35:25.610

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Question was closed 2019-01-25T18:11:25.683

Answers

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No.

You can't change Bitcoin's consensus algorithm. If you do, and you don't convince literally everyone to do the same thing, you'll end up with a fork in the chain. At best, that means you won't see any new blocks anymore. At worst, you'll end up with two active chains, and a split currency.

Pieter Wuille

Posted 2019-01-22T15:35:25.610

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