How would that even work? The idea simply doesn't make any sense.

an active fork that is not dropped by consensus or meeting protocol rules is deemed an altcoin if it continues to coexist along side the main consnsus chain for a long period with no sign of orphaning.
so im not sure he means fork in that chain forking meaning..

if he means a different bitcoin client program that still does the standard protocol rules.. but the GUI has some fancy features like an addressbook to allow users to send via username (secretly converted back to bitcoin base58 at tx signing ofcourse) and other fancies user side features that dont impact bitcoins chain.. then they can go ahead and charge customers to use their GUI..

As if monitoring how Coinbase customers spend their Bitcoin's wasn't bad enough.   

I agree. And Wal-Mart sells a lot of smartphones. But they don't tell Apple and Samsung how to design them.

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Companies like Coinbase and Circle need to stick with retailing, and let core focus on design unmolested. Retailers should retail, miners should mine, and core should develop.

why not..its a free market.

TRANSLATION: "we probably could use more money because we can sell AIR to people dumb enough to buy it"

x2 What he says does not even make sense.

Another of his tweets
I thought this was some sort of act to rally the masses for his agenda, but maybe he is just that clueless about Bitcoin.