Are there any plans to allow segmentation of the Steem blockchain to distribute a Witness operation across multiple servers instead of running full nodes? The memory and space requirements are increasing daily. Going to need a Google Bucket kind of dealio where a huge data structure is spread out across multiple server nodes hosting a set of manageable leafs. Then steemians can pool Witness resources without an insane amount of RAM, Storage and computing power at each node.

256G of RAM isn't going to be cheap :-D The minimal 32G requirement is almost too low now. Suspect a slight memory leak going on.