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>>53098423
I don't know how we can prove these suspicions. A bunch of Bitcoin Core maintainers founded Blockstream and were funded by VC money (BlackRock, Toys R Us, the Mormons, etc. doesn't matter). Is it legitimate to have expected them to work for free?

Now how did Blockstream monetize Bitcoin to pay back their investors? By building sidechain technology (eg. Liquid).

https://blockstream.com/liquid/

So far, has Blockstream made foul play? I don't see how. Satoshi himself envisioned sidechains.

"The incentive is to get the rewards from the extra side chains also for the same work.

While you are generating bitcoins, why not also get free domain names for the same work?"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28715#msg28715
He is referring to BitDNS here.

He adds:
"The networks need to have separate fates. BitDNS users might be completely liberal about adding any large data features since relatively few domain registrars are needed, while Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1790.msg28917#msg28917

So not only he foretold the future, but I'm assuming he suggests merge-mining as a solution to keeping the block size small?