Should I go Bitcoin or Develop a Custom Crypto-Currency?

Working on a project, Rust based self hosted AI home assistant. Details at:

Serious manifesto: https://cicero.sh/r/manifesto

Satirical comedy, George Carlin style: https://cicero.sh/r/hows-the-ai-revolution

Dev branch: https://github.com/cicero-ai/cicero/tree/dev-master

If you look at the manifesto, in phase II you will see involves a decentralized compute network overlayed with a privacy focused crypto-currency.

Initially I was thinking of developing my own crypto-currency. Monero is great, but I don't like the technical implementation with the multiple daemons — wallet, server node, clinet, etc. Definitely not doing Ethereum, as I hate that protocol.

Have been developing bitcoin related systems since 2010 though, so know the protocol inside out. Even developed my own node once. Haven't kept up with all the latest BIPs, but the base protocol remains the same.

To save time and energy, almost thinking instead of developing my own crypto currency, might be best to just use bitcoin instead. What do you think?

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