and you are simply economically illiterate.
who says the price of the sidecoin has to be $0? what if the sidecoin was sideZerocoin as in rocks example? a speculator, like myself, would seriously buy up a bunch of sideZerocoin on an exchange for FIAT and that alone could drive the price sky high.
Maybe you're just playing stupid?
The price of the sidecoin is 0$ because no one uses it.
Answer that :
Who would you buy sideZerocoin when you have the option to use scZEROBTC on a 1:1 peg risk-free?
Do you realise there is NO reason for the sidecoin to exist if you can replicate the feature on a 1:1 scBTC