Great article and a food for some mind twisting since I don't understand (yet) all the principles behind the technology.
Great news also about the improvements to the UI. They will we warmly welcomed, I am certain.
A question - is is feasible to apply the sharding concept to the graphene based blockchain and avoid bottlenecks that you mention? OK, you might answer that it isn't necessary nor possible but ... Just asking :)
TNX!
Short answer is, yes we can apply sharding to Steem, BitShares, and any other blockchain.
TNX!