@dantheman - I have some questions about the impact of this announcement on BitShares.

A) what is your guestimate of the effort to upgrade BitShares? (once you complete the upgrade for steem I'm sure your estimate would be more accurate)

B) Would this require a significant increase in RAM used by BitShares witness nodes for the existing transaction volume?

C) In your opinion should the BitShares community begin looking at upgrading to graphene 2.0 or should it wait until transaction volume dictate the need for it? BitShares has been amazingly stable for months now, so an upgrade of this magnitude has a strong probability of affecting that.

D) Aside from transaction throughput, are there any other compelling reasons an upgrade of BitShares to graphene 2.0 should be considered, and what degree of urgency would you assign to them?

As I have no doubt you're extremely busy, perhaps you could have Stan report the answers to these questions in this Friday's BBC mumble session.

Thanks for your extraordinary work, you really rock backend architecture!
Steemon!