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The best engineering talent works on Bitcoin. Altcoins were intellectually DOA.



Working on what? Smart-contracts? Privacy? The only thing Bitcoin has going is LN, but even than, it will not succeed - simply because a better alternatives exist.


Bitcoin is money, digital scarcity only needed to be invented once. Shitcoins are scams. LN is growing fast on a solid hard money layer 1 foundation.


You haven't addressed anything I've said. What they are working on? Definitely not privacy nor smart-contracts.


Privacy on the base layer means the supply isn't auditable. Lightning network has sender privacy and improvements are being made to receiver privacy. I did smart contracts stuff on Rootstock yesterday. I don't need my base layer doing that thanks. I just need it to be money.


they've been sea lioning this thread, the goal isn't to convince, but to exhaust




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