rocks, I also disagree with your characterization of Mc plus SC's as one seamless ledger in which 21M coins float with sov. If that were the case, why all the fuss and need to firewall them off?
In theory they are buy no one knows for sure in reality.
cypherdoc, isn't this same as move BTC from MC into exchange orderbook ?
Edit:
Gox even allowed exchange goxBTC between users(if they used address generated by gox). And they traded at
https://www.bitcoinbuilder.com/ Uh oh, were starting to recycle the same arguments.