As the blockchain scaling problem continues people are going to look more into alternatives and soon they will notice that directed acyclic graph is superior. Much faster transcation times.
So with byteball we have conditional payments, chatbots and payments in chat. Very light and easy to use wallet and free distribution when all you have to do is sign a messege from your bitcoin wallet and link your address.
I don't see any reason not to get involved in this
Is there any privacy concerns with linking a bitcoin address to a byteball?
What the public knows: The public bitcoin address that links to the public byteball address.
As far as the move from Bitcoin to Byteball goes, it's all in the public domain.
If someone knows that you own X bitcoin address and you link that, then they can tell that you own those Byteballs.
See here:
http://transition.byteball.org/