It turns out that Adam Back who invented HashCash the proof of work system used by Satoshi to create the blockchain with a bunch of bitcoin-wizards lived in a house in California for a month and invented a new Blockchain 2.0 that shards the blockchain to allow for unlimited scaling, multi-currency support and will change the face of bitcoin for ever. This is the most exciting news since the original whitepaper on Bitcoin. Already some suspect that Satoshi is involved somehow. They talk about it on the Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast and a summary is here,
http://www.ofnumbers.com/2014/04/09/paraphrased-notes-from-back-and-hill-interview/Speculation on Adam Back being Satoshi & history on this Austin Hill guy who's supposedly financed cypherpunk projects in the past
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/22na59/sidechains_the_coming_death_of_altcoins_and/cgp0e63