So I have gathered enough information to see that scripts are intended to provide extensibility.
If bitcoins represent one type of asset divided into 23,000,000 “shares” which are distributed via generation.
I would like to enable users to create other custom assets. The asset would have a globally unique hash and could ben sent / recved to addresses. For example, a company could issue “shares” that could then be exchanged and verified by bitcoin. A game engine could issue its own type of currency and have it tracked.
Is anything like this even remotely possible with scripts or would that require a breaking change? Is it even possible to ‘upgrade’ the network to support such an option at this point?