+1 Interesting interview.
Every network that's ever solved any major problem in history has done so through functional diversification and service oriented specialisation. Sooner or later cryptocurrency networks are going to have to either face up to that fact or simply sink into the technological quicksand while grinding their teeth into a pulp.
Even the tiniest, most granular eensy weensy decentralised sandgrain of information that can be detected on the internet - a TCP packet - has a heterogeneous, 2-tier structure. It has a head and a tail like a tiny wee sperm, one of trillions a second that float around the world with massive redundancy, fertilising their host receptors and aggregating into ever higher level protocols which are themselves heterogeneous in nature.
Dash has done it sooner and look at the benefits: It's solved the confirmation time problem without loss of security, the fungibility problem
without loss of transparency and now it's setting about solving the scaleability problem without loss of efficiency.
And all this time, the fundamental Satoshi blockchain philosophy and protocol that has engendered so much value, adoption and understanding has been barely touched, allowing it to inherit almost all the technological value proposition that those properties entail.
It's a slam dunk. The way forward IMO and just a matter of time before others follow (or get blown away by simple practical disadvantage).
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