[COAGULOPATH]

Years of reading cryptocurrency stuff has made me skeptical of articles wholly based on speculation about things that COULD happen, with no details on how to get there.

"X might do Y someday" is just the gentleman's way of saying "X doesn't do Y right now".

How would a LLN take over research? My understanding is that further improvements (once scale taps out) will rely on algorithmic improvements - ie, nontrivial math in a highly abstract and technical field that's evolving year-by-year. That's exactly the kind of thing LLNs seem really bad at.