This is what sidechains mean to me.
Side chains are not even the slightest bit needed to use BTC as a reserve currency. It's nearly prefect the way it is. 7 tps is plenty for that. Probably an order of magnitude or two overkill in fact.
the problem here is that when the price doesn't conform to ppl's expectations, low level thinkers like tvbcof & even high level thinkers like Adam, begin to believe that there is something wrong and start thinking they're smarter than Satoshi and start proposing all sorts of hair brained "solutions". this is just another of many repeated sufferings we all have to endure.