Lol, will I need a licence for that too?

Not sure how you define most reasonable but Dr Jack Kruse is def one of the smartest

If you say its failed and dead, how much bip110 BTC are you willing to sell me for $5 per 1BTC bip110?

If he thinks bip110 is worthless maybe he should put his money where his mouth is and sell us his bip110 coin for whatever ridiculously low price he thinks bip110 coin is worth. All his comrades would be advised to do the same.

Highly doubt exchanges would give us the opportunity to buy for $5 per 1BTC Bip110. All bought bip110 coin would go straight into self custody because of who'd be buying it. Think there would be enough demand to expose their paper Bitcoin practices.

If you believe there was no corruption, collusion or conspiracy and that opinions of people around you constitute the consensus reality there is nothing I can tell you to stop you from using the Core version of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a popularity contest of opinions. The nodes have spoken and the chain has split. People do not gravitate towards Bitcoin because its popular but because it provides decentralized permissionless solution to money. If you're in no need of such solution it doesn't matter what you do next. But if such solution is what you need you'll end up diverging from the centralisation of the entire bitcoin ecosystem. And once that centralised ecosystem turns on the nodes, the social contract is broken and the network naturally defends itself and that's why we are here and that's why people don't want to go back to Core. Parting ways and rebuilding is the right thing to do.

I think your idea of what constitutes network is somewhat misplaced. Larger ecosystem meaning miners, exchanges, wallets are servants of the network. The actually network is the nodes relaying information to each other. They asked miners to mine blocks according to some rules and the miners ignored them. There was no refusal to bip110 from inside the network unless you count the inflated 30% of core v30+ nodes which did not explicitly say no.

You're still looking at it through fiat perspective. 1BTC will always be 1BTC if secured by a protocol without 3rd party. That's 1/21M. Core chain has now proven the ability to remove this attribute over time which will make 1BTC less valuable because it will become a smaller part of the full pie. You will then need to compare the size of economy each chain represents. Initially core chain will represent much larger economy but after some time it will be of no use to free people because it will become permissioned through centralisation so for free people such chain will represent a value of zero to their objectives.

Because BIP110 chain split provided the ultimate evidence that the core chain decision making is centralised. Bitcoiners are not interested in yet another system with 3rd party and after what happened on 8 august, you will never get rid of that 3rd party on core chain because the mechanism you had for that removal has been proven removed.

Could exchanges even offer it? All bought bip110 coin would go straight to self custody because of who is buying it and if the price is too low and we start draining their reservers they get exposed for their paper bitcoin practices really quickly.

2026: The 3rd party that Bitcoin is trying to get rid of is trying to persuade the world that Bitcoin without 3rd party is not Bitcoin 😂