Heh, amazing what $75 million or whatever it was of VC funding will do to someone.

Also, someone please explain to me how a 'side chain' is functionally different from an 'alt coin.'
You need an altcoin at the other end to transact between. I suppose you could create Bitcoin 1, Bitcoin 2 and crossover between the two. That way you don't have to work with or create an altcoin

My point was that a side chain
is basically another coin. That, in this case, will presumeably exist to do some stuff that Bitcoin... can't.
