Amanojack

How do you pronounce your name? Is bass the musical term or the fish?

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Would it have been possible to do what you did using Paypal or credit card, etc.?

While yours is unquestionably a rockstar team of programmers who all seem interested in improving Bitcoin in the face of competition rather than fragmenting the cryptocurrency space, the original design decisions that have made Bitcoin successful are arguably more about economic incentives than software implementation. Sidechains raise the economic complexity significantly, and in a system where for example mining incentives are tied inextricably to the actual investment value of a chain, sidechains cannot truly be thought of as a neutral testing ground for new ideas that can't harm Bitcoin simply because the chains are separate. Economic incentives connect them.

Can you allay the fears of those who see this project as a bunch of engineers toying with incentive structures that they don't really understand in a misguided effort to fix perceived weaknesses? Does anyone on the team claim to have a solid economic and investment background?