Did you even look up the word delegated?
It does require trust in order to delegate. Not sure how you have a delegated transaction consensus without trust.
What do you think pool mining is?
First we have litecoin trolls, now semantic trolls.
Excuse me. Please leave the name calling at the door. I'm not a troll.
I am a genuinely interested user here asking legitimate questions.
To answer you,
Pool mining is built upon the protocol not making it the same as the underlying system.
My point being that bitcoin could survive without pool mining. Pool mining is not a requirement for bitcoin to be useful.
Once again please leave the name calling at the door as I am honestly genuinely interested.
Just because I ask questions does not automatically make me a troll.