Why not battle test the shit out of OP_CAT on testnet? Deploy AI powered fuzzers, specialists looking for holes to exploit and scenarios to test at ridiculous scale. Offer bounties. Think of gnarly evil scenarios, try to break everything, and record results.
It’s a good question. IMO, Incentives aren’t there. Breaking testnet gets you 0 dollars and internet kudos. If you want lots of security, you put a big incentive out there and then wait for it to explode. Bitcoin did this perfectly by slowly ramping up value and being very conservative in development.
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