I don't know about the details of modern maidsafe operation, but when I went to a talk by them a few years back at a Bitcoin conference in DC, they were 100% fu

I don't know about the details of modern maidsafe operation, but when I went to a talk by them a few years back at a Bitcoin conference in DC, they were 100% full of it. All talk, no substance. I asked a few pointed questions wrt. Sybil attacks and their responses were so bad that a few of the knowledgeable people (including some Bitcoin-qt devs) present couldn't help but laugh. It was very transparently some sort of investor money grab. I would take anything they say with a serious grain of salt.