Is there no post discussing the implications or prospects of this?

What is clear is that Peter todd is determined to give via the first treechain in crypto.

I am too much of a technical noob to understand the potential impact of the bitcoin core developments for via, unfortunately. Maybe there are some experts here who can brake this down for me?

ps: two days left to get 1000 via and 10000 xch http://www.reddit.com/r/viacoin/comments/2k0k81/viacoin_and_clearinghouse_present_the_future_of/