<p>No.</p>

<p>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.</p>

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Pieter Wuille
<p>Algorand is an extremely promising consensus protocol -- Could Bitcoin be configured to use Algorand?</p>

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Bitcoin Pluggable Consensus with Algorand?
Nathan Aw
# Bitcoin Pluggable Consensus with Algorand?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-01-22)

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

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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-01-22. Score: 5

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.


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