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I come up with something totally different as mining algorithm and still be using the bitcoin protocol
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I don't know what these other guys are talking about, of course you could create a fork where the mining is done completely differently.
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Sure, but then you wouldn't really be "using the bitcoin protocol", would you?
Yes, you would. The other nodes would understand what yours is saying, but they just wouldn't like it.