Note that he Ironically said later that He is not tied with Clearinghouse, just a simple consultant. He is panicking or what ?
It's a joke. Reread it.
Sounds like a back handed compliment.
Yeah after seeing his message it's a very intelligent joke seemingly making fun of sidechain technology more than counterparty.
He's being ironic. We didn't do anything with the creation of XCP that wasn't also done with BTC. And it goes without saying that no one could shut down Counterparty without also banning Bitcoin itself!