[OrpheanBeholder]

> Matthew Green was _insistent_ about making an altcoin

"Let me reiterate, I would 10,000x rather have put Zerocash in Bitcoin." - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154154453702656...

> He was especially concerned about difficulties monetizing any other path.

"Rewards doesn't even start the discussion. I'd have done it for free just to see it used." - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78153489377171865...

admittedly he does bring up monetization: "And even when you got the code, nobody ever answered the problem of how you pay miners and devs." https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154634460341043...

>sidechain right here.

"Last I checked - a few months back - it was just a bunch of ideas. No code on main." "And more importantly, no schedule on when it was going to go live. You can't build something that doesn't exist." - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154605479791821...

"A cynical part of me came to think the whole thing was just a put-on designed to squash competing coins." - https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/78154720002742681...