I wrote in reply to k00b about my issues with sidechains specifically as it applies to thinking of it as a scaling solution: #226879

Not mentioned in that comment are things like "Hey, all the limitations of our decentralized timestamp server are going to apply to these side decentralized timestamp servers too"

For example "Hey, the reason we have a small blocksize is going to apply to sidechains too"

"Hey, the reason we have a high block time is going to apply to these sidechains too"

And remember, this is constrained to only talk about sidechains for scaling and nothing else. Fuck all the nonmonetary use cases. Take them out of the conversation, they're a distraction and off topic to the resolution. What's the resolution?

Resolved: "How do we scale Bitcoin?"

That is the topic. I spend so much time dedicated to talking about how I want to constrain the discussion to just that and only that, because I know people are stubborn and I kinda feel scaling isn't the real reason behind this suggestion, so lets constrain the topic to only be about scaling to really put to the fire how much about scaling this push for sidechains really is.