Just a look through the docs this all reads much better than ethereum. For give me as I am still new to the rapid new things happening in this space.
What's is the ballpark transaction cost?
Also, I was curious what made it difficult to have smart contracts in bitcoin in the first place? I wasn't quite sure why others were not simply having done smart contracts like ethereum and hope to be better educated the solution here. thanks!
Bitcoin has limited scripting language (Bitcoin script) for security reasons. Having a general smart contract language could open up a larger attack surface area for Bitcoin.
The transaction costs will be low initially as they're a function of network traffic. The main thing here is to decouple scaling of transaction (as miroblocks on Stacks chain) from the scalability of Bitcoin (and Bitcoin is hard/impossible to change).
What's is the ballpark transaction cost?
Also, I was curious what made it difficult to have smart contracts in bitcoin in the first place? I wasn't quite sure why others were not simply having done smart contracts like ethereum and hope to be better educated the solution here. thanks!