Re: Solidity scripts in Bitcoin transactions using Inscriptions
Here's a crazy idea. Rather than embedding stupid jpegs in the witness data, what about embedding solidity scripts? The capabilities of Bitcoin could potentially be expanded tremendously. Opinions?
Great idea but why not directly embed a *solid* language in your few transaction-bytes instead, like c++ for example. Jokes aside, as already pointed out as long as which-ever-language is not part of the Bitcoin protocol, nothing will happen.
And hopefully onchain program code (aside from the few op-return commands) will never be a thing with Bitcoin. No need for another turing-complete megachain. Just sidechain that shit or use a normal centralized server, which is probably the better solution in 99.9% of cases anyway.
It's probably the best time for developers who want to build on Bitcoin to start exploring Blockstream's Liquid Sidechain if they truly want to make something that utilizes BTC at the center and gives more value to it. Inscribing BRC-20 tokens through Ordinals, then using a centralized/trusted indexer for trades/transfers is definitely NOT a good solution. Although, BRC-20 users will spread the narrative that they're moving Bitcoin development forward, and the plebs will believe it.