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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by kobeya on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:38PM (#15468209)
To be clear, sidechain transactions are just transactions on another chain. I wouldn’t call that off chain as it actually introduces more transactions (to move across the peg).
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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by rothbardrand on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:12PM (#15469816)
It's less transactions. Imagine you're paying your cable bill.. you can move some value to the side chain (one transaction) then make 12 monthly transactions-- on the side chain, so off the main chain--and then after cancelling move the balance back to the main chain (second transaction)

Thus 14 transactions become 2.

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Re:This Is the Week Wall Street Went Nuts Over Cryptocurrencies by kobeya on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:05PM (#15469971)
The amount of on chain transactions supported by a global mining network is fixed. You can’t just keep adding side chains or else you will run into the same scaling limits.
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