I'm not certainly not saying that Leemon Baird and his colleagues have everything solved.. far from it. I think they have a hell of a lot more work to continue with. Additionally, it would not make sense for them to put every transacting entity on Hashgraph as a full node, and so no, I don't anticipate smartphones as full nodes. The connectivity and data storage would certainly be a limitation. The point of even mentioning a smart phone being able to run on it was in comparison to the ridiculous computational power needed to do effective Bitcoin mining.

I have no stake in Hashgraph and really don't care whether it's Hashgraph or another technology that takes us to the next step in fully peer-to-peer transactions. My interest is just to see that the middlemen finally get taken out and if Hashgraph shows real promise of doing this, then let's see what it can do. I'm certainly not religious about it. (By the way, miners are middlemen too, just as we have seen in the ridiculous costs of Bitcoin transactions and their centralization in China and elsewhere.)

If you look historically, it has always been key controlling monopolies / oligopolies that have screwed mankind. These controllers have used their middleman manipulation in trade, money, markets, communications, etc. to basically keep everyone under their thumb. My hope with Hashgraph, or any other technology that works exceedingly well in its stead to keep out the middlemen, is that finally we can have truly free markets, money, trade, and communications. It's also my personal view that blockchain is still in its infancy in its ability to fully enable this needed transformation. This, therefore, is my real interest in Hashgraph, but I don't care if it's Hashgraph or another technology that can achieve it. In other words, I'm not drinking any Hashgraph Kool-Aid, but I do want to see them enable what Baird is envisioning. His vision is to disintermediate everything and this is exactly what I want to see as well.