In recent days, a strange wind has risen online, claiming that Dogecoin (DOGE) will switch to a POS consensus mechanism. It is unclear whether the spreaders truly do not understand or are deliberately trying to confuse the audience, pretending to be ignorant while knowing the truth, perhaps to create some kind of hype narrative.

DOGE is essentially a slightly modified version of the Bitcoin source code, and in its early days, it adopted a merged mining model with Litecoin (LTC) due to the low number of mining participants: in the past, mining LTC would grant DOGE, but now it is the opposite, mining DOGE grants LTC.

DOGE uses a UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) architecture, rather than the account model of Ethereum, and therefore cannot natively support EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine). If it were to switch to POS, it would require a complete reconstruction of the underlying code; at that time, if the original POW miners insist on mining, no one can stop them (I will also continue to hold the POW version of DOGE).

To achieve a POS transformation, a strong centralized organization would need to lead the reconstruction of the underlying code and execute a hard fork at a specific block height. After the fork, the new chain might be named pDOGE, while the original DOGE chain continues to exist; although the new chain inherits some history, the address system of DOGE will not be compatible with EVM, so the POS version of DOGE will be unrelated to the original DOGE and will essentially be a brand new chain coin.

Even so, this change will not affect the existing DOGE chain. As long as miners continue to use mining machines to mine, the original chain will operate normally. At that time, it will depend on whether the public accepts the original DOGE mined with power-consuming machines or the pDOGE generated through costless staking!

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