This paper is a HUGE DEAL in the bitcoin community. Sidechains in theory could address lots of the scalability issues of Bitcoin and could accelerate the roll o

This paper is a HUGE DEAL in the bitcoin community. Sidechains in theory could address lots of the scalability issues of Bitcoin and could accelerate the roll out of new features. However, there are many strong opinions on both sides as to whether sidechains are desirable and/or technically possible.