That's a good point, the reason they are not doing it is probably because they think they are smarter than everyone else, I doubt that.
Point taken, whenever i read altcoin material its always some massively complex gigabrain solution, that disregards a lot of the trade offs. It can't be simple, that was the altcoin space for ages, now ironically simple meta data like BRC-20 are all the rage, its weird
Thats why i thought okay if having smart contracts and all that other jazz isn't all that important, a BTC side chain where you can slap your OP_CAT or whatever upgrades your community wants would surely have a market?
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Yeah really, why don't they port it to a side chain and use it there?
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You don't even need a separate side chain. Bitcoin SV has OP_CAT I've heard.