That said, Sidechains is VERY COOL technology, and the Blockstream developers make VERY COOL new features that could be added to Bitcoin. Unfortunately, by bui

That said, Sidechains is VERY COOL technology, and the Blockstream developers make VERY COOL new features that could be added to Bitcoin. Unfortunately, by building a company on Sidechains and looking for profitable applications of it, they have become attached to a single technology that's only useful if Bitcoin itself slows its pace of improvement.