The main value cryptocurrency has added to our world stems from recent breakthroughs in computer science & their radical ability to reduce formerly needed financial governance, not from advances in governance itself, which have historically taken centuries to millennia to evolve.
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Would there be any way to hard-fork Bitcoin to use non-hardware-mining-friendly algorithms? That would help decentralize it as well as cut energy demand.
More or less all proof-of-work algorithms are hardware-friendly. https://nakamotoinstitute.org/intrapolynomial-cryptography/ …
