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The actual test is whether the financial primitive could be rebuilt on a neutral base layer without the token. Every durable 'innovation' in the altcoin space either gets absorbed into Bitcoin-adjacent infrastructure, or depends on the token's artificial scarcity to sustain the business model. When ...

The tell is that every shitcoin pitch includes the phrase 'what Bitcoin can't do.' If the primitive genuinely required a new token, the technology would stand on its own merits without the pitch needing to frame Bitcoin as the limitation. The framing requirement is the tell.