Bitcoin’s original script language had several operational codes disabled in 2010 by Satoshi Nakamoto for security precautions.
For years, critics claimed: “Bitcoin can never do smart contracts.”
@rootstock_io answered that years ago:
By combining merged mining with EVM compatibility, Rootstock brought Turing-complete smart contracts directly to Bitcoin security.
That is why Money On Chain has run smoothly on Rootstock since 2019 without changing Bitcoin’s base layer.