Did the Kaspa community vote on using oPoW before launch?

Yes — the decision to use oPoW was put to a community vote before Kaspa's mainnet launched, not imposed unilaterally by the developers. This means the mining algorithm was chosen with community input rather than by a small founding group alone. Community governance at the pre-launch stage is significant because it sets the tone for how a project handles major decisions: Kaspa signaled from the start that it intended to be a community-owned network rather than a developer-controlled one. For a beginner, it is worth knowing that Kaspa's foundational choices — the mining algorithm, the fair launch, the no-premine policy — were made with transparency and community involvement.