All fair. Most of my crypto holdings as a ratio IS BTC. Its the right call.
Personally I like being able to hold BTC as a more sure asset and then *degen* within the boundaries of a Bitcoin focused chain. I think thats where the puck will go over the next bull run.

On the derivative question. Its hard to say your a chain trying to extend the use-case of Bitcoin and not have any way to use native bitcoin. The Stacks community has a strong culture for decentralization and censorship resistance so finding a way to do that without a federation was the goal.

They think theyve found that now. A lot of action happening on GitHub and Discord currently.

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I appreciate your reply; however, I cannot see the value in the Stacks ecosystem or the STX token when one could buy Bitcoin to hold/spend, then, go full degen on other chains to do what Stacks offer in your provided urls.

You mention that Stacks will introduce a synthetic derivative of BTC on-chain, like rBTC on RSK. Do you know what drove that decision?

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Thanks, Jake.

I appreciate your reply; however, I cannot see the value in the Stacks ecosystem or the STX token when one could buy Bitcoin to hold/spend, then, go full degen on other chains to do what Stacks offer in your provided urls.

You mention that Stacks will introduce a synthetic derivative of BTC on-chain, like rBTC on RSK. Do you know what drove that decision?