For future historians, the concept of "blockrope" was fully developed and now exists. If you want to see it live: explorer.chainweb.com

Called Chainweb (Kadena discovered and developed the idea before finding this thread) the original blockrope concept was extended by leveraging graph theory to unbound the max-chain count a single network can have.

https://github.com/kadena-io/chainweb-node
https://www.kadena.io/whitepapers