you still haven't answered how a SC can't hurt Bitcoin if the economic value of a scBTC starts exceeeding a BTC in USD terms b/c of a significant innovation.
Hmm, what about an alt-coin
-> if the economic value of ALT starts exceeeding a BTC in USD terms b/c of a significant innovation.
that's true but then why should we duplicate that exposure via SC's? in fact, this is worse b/c of all the other conflicts of interest involving core devs i've mentioned in this discussion.
Using SC, bitcoin can adapt ANY feature instantly. Bitcoin can test this feature in sandbox (SC) and make result
a) must to have -> feature is implemented
b) nice to have -> let's wait we will see latter, SC works good
c) scam -> feature RIP
It is one of 1,000 ... advantages of SC