"shitcoins" and "stablecoins" (many of them consider these to be the same)

I lol'd.

What I'm really waiting for is a solid way to wrap Bitcoin on Hive.

That would be really cool. I'm going to be honest here, I'm a very average (or below) programmer. I'm still in school for computer science and because I have a double major (one also in neuroscience) I can't devote enough time to really allow my skills to flourish. In the space of academia I have done blockchain based research (even published one recently), but this is mostly in the dapp space more than the infrastructure space. I really really really wanted to build on Hive for this, but it feels like there is some inadequacy in the "bridge" solutions that we have. I don't know that I'm prepared to build something of this magnitude that would be sufficiently decentralized and permission-less.

I never really understood the "plug-in" feature on the nodes here on Hive. To your knowledge is it possible to build an extra consensus layer on top of this? I would be willing to attempt to help with something of that nature if it is. If this isn't the case, what are the limitations/capabilities of plugins?