IMPORTANT POINTS:
- Charles Hoskinson proposes integrating Bitcoin Cash as Cardano Partnerchain with advanced technologies.
- The community shows strong initial support with more than 12,000 votes in favor of integration.
- Cardano is in the process of major technological upgrades, including the “Chang” hardfork and the new “Ouroboros Leios” model.
Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, recently published a “hypothetical survey” on social media platform X, asking the crypto community if they would be interested in seeing a integration between Cardano and Bitcoin Cash.
The poll received more than 12,000 votes in its first 24 hours, with a 66.3% initial majority voting “yes” to the proposal.
“Would you like to see Bitcoin Cash become an updated Cardano Partnerchain with Useful Proof of Work Leios, NiPoPoWs and Ergo technology, making it the fastest and most useful proof-of-work chain ever built?”
As mentioned above, Hoskinson labeled his survey as hypothetical. However, as Elon Musk has demonstrated since his purchase of the X platform, it is possible to use the platform as a steering point for decision making.
Community Comments and Reactions
Ben Scherrey, founder and CTO of blockchain firm Biggest Lab, posted comments in favor of the movement, stating that he always thought there was a
“Natural synergy between the two chains given the shared UTXO model that allows high scalability and decentralization”.
While the community seems to support the idea of a Bitcoin Cash and Cardano integration, how such a partnership would form and work is a bit murky.
On the technological side, Hoskinson used the term “partnerchain”. This seems to imply that Bitcoin Cash would have to be linked or cross-linked in some way to operate with the proposed upgrades.
Future Cardano developments and updates
Assuming that both development teams could reach an agreement on the technical aspects of the partnership, a consensus between shareholders and developers would still be necessary.
Hoskinson’s social media speech comes as Cardano prepares for two “important updates” this year. As Cointelegraph recently reported, the company is preparing for the “Chang” hardfork planned for sometime in the second quarter of 2024, as well as a new proof-of-stake model called “Ouroboros Leios”.
Hoskinson praised the upcoming updates in his response to an April 7 video posted by crypto influencer Ben “Bitboy” Armstrong. In the video, Armstrong called Cardano (ADA) a “dead”.
