Why not adopt MPI based code... in the steem source code... I mean... if you can have 100 cell phones.. doing a steem node... because you can't buy a BIG server! Would not that be awesome?
I mean... even if you look further... this will give STEEM a new market... which is full of performance... called HPC (High Performance Computing)... which is also inside the cloud, and reaching out for AI, deep computing and deep learning.
I am not joking, and anyone that can spin up a VM for a normal wallet, can also spin up a wallet for a an HPC cluster that can outperform many of the BIG VMs inside the cloud offering. Just check it out!
HPC is the way! No more... careless infrastructure!
I have bumped my comment (voting on it).