well, you couldn't. Peter Todd is a btc dev and provided a lot of thinking on the tradeoffs. He stated in an interview (fairly confident in this) a 100x improve

well, you couldn't. Peter Todd is a btc dev and provided a lot of thinking on the tradeoffs. He stated in an interview (fairly confident in this) a 100x improvement in speed and is in favour of not increasing block size. Should check it out, the intetview was on a podcast on the LTB network on itunes. So you will be able to. He has done a lot of thinking around tree chains and scaling and optimiztion. Btc is limited inamount of coins and came first, its value is as a currency. Eth is the first popular blockchaindb. Coins are needed to pay miners and powet dapps. If a currency cant be traded it idnt worth anything, however sidechains seem to provide a way to convert from one to another