Now that's some humility and practicality right there.
Exactly the sort of thing we would never get from the originator of SC.

While you could argue that this is a case of not eating ones own dogfood...  I think it's just sensible bootstrapping.

I've no idea if this chain will be worth any attention (I'm a little wary of the claims re some new double-spending algorithm)
but at least the attitude seems to be reasonable so far!