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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Why didn't satoshi use PoW for something else?
by
goregrind
on 17/10/2018, 16:13:12 UTC
Did satoshi avoid this in purpose to avoid possible game theoretical incentive problems so he made it strict bitcoin without side use cases?

Yes. The only thing keeping Bitcoin together are properly aligned incentives.
As seen in the covert asicboost scandal, the smallest misalignment can wreck chaos.