Block producers on EOS are very similar / almost identical as Witnesses on Steemit. They will be the core of EOS platform, since block production will directly depend on them. Although it takes larger effort both from technological and human factor perspective to get into the race for block production on EOS / compared to Steemit, this could be an ideal place to position ourself if we plan to offer Gridcoin Wallet as DApp one day. (Dapp would be EOS based apps that runs on top of the blockchain platform, similar to what we know today as webapps.) If EOS - the largest ICO ever happened succeed, we can expect strong impact on future development and wide adoption of this technology. EOS is lead by Dan Larimer, same guy who founded and constructed Steemit and BitShares. It's very promising technology that could easy transform web as we know it today. - At least based on previous success of Dan. Roughly, you can think of EOS as the new generation of decentralized, blockchain based Operating System. Block Producers are center authority making it all work, just like witnesses do on Steemit.
More Informations and valuable resources: https://eos.io/resources
Also, I posted this to see if there's general interest. If it happens that we have, I will definitely prepare more precise informations on next steps.
I would jump into this anyway by myself, unless there is a will from community that we do it jointly. If we decide to do it, rather then doing by myself, i'll put the resources at the service of Gridcoin team. Chances to get it successfully are lot better if we do it jointly.
Thanks for the explanation. That sounds pretty cool -- I'll do some more reading about it on my own.