Miners benefit from deflating the supply. If there were only 50,000 bitcoins and the rest was locked up in sidechains, then every mining reward would be worth f

Miners benefit from deflating the supply. If there were only 50,000 bitcoins and the rest was locked up in sidechains, then every mining reward would be worth far more. They would like more sidechains to Bitcoin. (Somewhere Joel Spolsky is yelling: “Commoditize your complements!”)