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Noting the development of multiple altcoins which implemented feature sets different to Bitcoin’s own, Vitalik proposed the idea of extending BTC’s scripting language to transform it into a more flexible, programmable platform, which could be used to implement alternate features without the need to create separate projects. However, there was resistance against incorporating this approach into BTC, primarily because it would weaken the system’s overall security by opening up major new...