No need to apologize man, I enjoy reading your stuff 👍. One of the ideas that has been floating in my head is to create a smart contract sidechain for hive to takle several use cases (one of them is having assests backed by other cryptos). But I lack the know-how 🙁.

In my simple mind the sidechain would replicate the public keys of all hive accounts and also have atomic swap capabilities. Along with that the nodes would be able to broadcast transactions to the main chain. The difficult part is getting a trustless interaction between both chains.

I know that currently we have hive-engine but that is a far cry to what I am envisioning.