Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson just lately posted a “hypothetical ballot” on the X social media platform asking the crypto neighborhood in the event that they’d be excited about seeing a Cardano and Bitcoin Money integration.
The ballot obtained greater than 12,000 votes in its first 24 hours with a 66.3% early majority voting “sure” to the proposal.
“Would you wish to see Bitcoin Money change into a Cardano Partnerchain upgraded with Helpful Proof of Work Leios, NiPoPoWs, and Ergo tech, thus being the quickest and most helpful proof of labor chain ever constructed?”
As talked about above, Hoskinson labelled his ballot as being hypothetical. Nonetheless, as Elon Musk has proven since his buy of the X platform, previously Twitter, it’s doable to make use of the platform as a steering level for resolution making.
Ben Scherrey, founder and CTO of blockchain agency Largest Lab, posted commentary in favor of the transfer, stating that he’d “all the time thought there was some pure synergy between the 2 chains given the shared UTXO mannequin that enables for prime scalability and decentralization.”
Whereas the neighborhood seems to assist the thought of a Bitcoin Money and Cardano integration, how such a partnership would type and performance is a bit murky.
On the expertise facet, Hoskinson used the time period “partnerchain.” This appears to suggest Bitcoin Money must be bridged or cross-chained in some type as a way to function with the proposed upgrades.
Assuming each growth groups may come to an accord on the technical facets of the partnership, there would nonetheless have to be a consensus amongst stakeholders and builders.
Hoskinson’s discourse on social media comes as Cardano prepares for 2 “main upgrades” this yr. As Cointelegraph just lately reported, the corporate is making ready for the “Chang” hardfork slated for someday within the second quarter of 2024 as effectively a new proof-of-stake model called “Ouroboros Leios.”
The pending upgrades had been lauded by Hoskinson in his response to an April 7 video posted by crypto influencer Ben “Bitboy” Armstrong. Within the video, Armstrong referred to Cardano as “useless”
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