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You are trying to justify that bitcoin needs more than it has

No, I wasn’t.

But on that note, to scale, it absolutely does. Turning certain OP Codes would also help with this.

And my point was that people have different visions of what Bitcoin is. Some think it’s a platform, some just view it as money. Now that Taproot assets is already enabled (I don’t know that I would have pushed for it when the debate around it was happening), it has the potential to take the shitcoinery, if you want to put it that way (I personally think there’s potential value in having things like Polymarket come to Bitcoin), off of the base layer and Lightning and to put it in an L2 that doesn’t require a BIP or soft fork.

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:P 10mo ago

I addressed that people want different things from bitcoin, that’s why I bucketed these different views into personas (suits,devs, and the majority)

During the signaling processes prior to taproot’s activation. Taproot was being sold as a privacy upgrade to bitcoin which hasn’t materialized. Now the goal post has been shifted to the smart contract narrative. Taproot is no different than a shitcoin -it has become a solution in search of a problem.

Not sure why you are saying we need taproot to be able to create a polymarket that uses Bitcoin. Anyone can create a polymarket with bitcoin as the currency without taproot. No matter what something like polymarket will have to have a level of centralization and an oracle. polymarket can’t really be 100% automated user input is required. Btw we should not be making base level changes to the bitcoin protocol for a “native bitcoin polymarket”

My point is there hasn’t been anything built that solidifies that the taproot activation has been a net positive so far. I personally don’t think it will ever be justified because the negative implications like tether on lightning will outweigh any good that taproot does.