Another aspect that could be utilized is that a MaidSafe 'farmer' is paid at a rate proportional to their hardware's uptime patterns/resource contribution. Thei

Another aspect that could be utilized is that a MaidSafe 'farmer' is paid at a rate proportional to their hardware's uptime patterns/resource contribution. Their earnings fund the purchase of whatever resources (compute, memory, storage, bandwidth) are necessary to run their mint node app. I would imagine there are numeric values available which represent both the available mint node operation time, & the rate at which their mint node operation time resorviour refills based on their farming hardware contribution relaibility/pay rate. Thus, there would be values available that could be plugged into some algorithm to programmatically influence a variable exchange rate for users on whatever mint node, based on that mint node provider's projected reliability, as dictated by data.