I feel your pain on STRAT, but like you said, may as well hang in there till the new year. My friend bought a load at the top of the market also. He was going to offload them today, but told him the same. Sure if you're down already, may as well see if it sneaks back up.

I think Smartbridges are slightly different than wrapping tokens and atomic swaps as you'll access the other chains from Ark itself. That gives you a better "get-out" if one of the chains starts becoming unsecured or you need to use multiple chain features at the same time. Only time will tell, but having read up on it and earning my PHD in understanding mental crypto developer talk, I'm well up for it.

Great point you make on Stratis needing privacy for business! Can't believe I missed the whole memo there.... Didn't even think about the impact of public eyes watching the money in or out of the business or worse, execution of contracts! Guess I've been looking with innocent eyes till now thinking about pure Dapp development and wondering why no one has built a kittens game on the......ahhhhh yeahh, that's not worked out well for the chain eh lol!

I only heard about Cryptokittens the other night. Still trying to take it all in. They're like stickers of cats eh! Gotta catch em all! (does that work in this context?)