Why does Bitcoin not have smart contracts?

how do you guys keep cooking these Bitcoin videos non stop? 😂

Bitcoin doesn't need smart contracts. It just needs holders smart enough not to sell.

honestly the fact it doesn't try to do everything is why I trust it to just hold value

Bitcoin that is "of no use" is precisely what makes it greatly useful, giving it the potential to become something like digital gold. But once it is altered, especially drastically upgraded to a quantum‑safe algo, it instantly becomes truly "of no use".

I'd add one wrinkle: Bitcoin keeps the base layer simple on purpose so it stays hard money. Supply capped at 21 million, rules that are hard to change. Extra features can live on other layers.

It does, just deliberately limited ones. Bitcoin Script is not Turing complete, which keeps validation cheap and predictable so anyone can run a node, and shrinks the attack surface of the base layer. Multisig, timelocks and Lightning channels are all smart contracts. Expressiveness gets pushed to layers so the settlement layer never has to change for an app.

It is already smart.

It does. Taproot introduced DLC's but nobody is building anything to use it!!

Cause bitcoin is not a shitcoin….?

#Bitcoin keeps scripting small on purpose. more capability means more attack surface, and this network has to hold value for decades

80‑byte OPRETURN caps contract complexity

How about a video about how the price of btc is determined?

Wizard wrote Pepe a contract. Pepe signed with a footprint.

We don't NEED smart contracts. $BTC is a coin for perr to peer payments and sovereign wealth

@Stacks turned it on

tbh keeping it boring is kind of the whole point