It's been planned for the coin for months. Merged mining implementation was a first step towards securing it and making it ready for sidechains. The potential effect on the price would not be a bad thing, to say the least, based on the statements of the Blockstream devs during their AMA and elsewhere.
Who planned that? Bryce won't do it. He can't even complete the most basic tasks. So who is the one implementing it? It's not Bryce. Last update isn't even 100% by now. I don't see this discussion as helpful at all right now.
Let's leave it at 'maybe later'. And if it's coming later after proof of concept on another coin in the wild it should be done by Maxwell. But right now we're still busy with ironing out the last update and i feel the community desires a good coin that's not a constant building site, at least for a while.
In 'under construction' conditions the cap won't grow.
I tell you: there will be no longterm demand from it beyond a pump and dump. It's really not that interesting and even too risky for that possible reward.
There is a whole lot of stuff to get right before we can even talk about another hardfork. Right now it's uncalled for. Maybe later.
I think the cap will grow a whole lot more if we can make the last update 100% and say "we're good for a little while" so the community can recover a little from the last very stressfull fork which in the end of the day caused selling instead of buying because it was delivered badly. I don't think we're interested in more screwjobs right now.
I think we should not even discuss it before an example is made on another coin for people to see what's it about and also for safety reasons. Going from testnet to Uno is BS.
Uno is a
store of value coin (actually the only one) with one of the most solid communities. We're not that hype pump and dump shitcoin. And we don't need more bells and whistles than we already have. Uno is about the monetary properties and not really about features. You can build on top of it without forks!
There is also nowhere near enough traffic on the chain to even justify a need for a sidechain! Are you even holding a considerable amount of it yourself?
Bottom line: it's not urgent also generally rules of complex systems apply (don't fix what isn't broken)
edit: it will also only help the price if it is desired and welcomed by the ones holding the coins. You're speculating on
maybe increased demand while i speculate on maybe increased supply from it. I'm sure the ones releasing SC are good in hyping it up, no doubt about that. But if the current holders of Uno respond to that hype in a positive way is another story.
People who don't provide liquidity shouldn't even talk about changes to the coin in the first place btw. We should make it a rule for the coin that only those showing a buywall at the market should be allowed to suggest any changes imo. Which one is your buyorder? Can you flash it? Or got some latest tradehistory to share?
