For context, personal research project with an entirely functional implementation that you can try in under 2mn, see: https://settle.network/
Would love feedback on the model and ideas of where it could be made useful!
MaidSafe app maybe could be interesting.
Could you elaborate what you have in mind?
If I understand correctly, you have a 'mint' node running on a server that's associated with a user ID, so that user's trust record is tightly associated with the reliability of that box. But with MaidSafe, the mint node would exist on the network & redundancy is baked-in, so there's only a user ID involved- the durability of the mint node is effectively forever- or at least for as long as sufficient resources are made available to cover the node's network resource usage.
That's an interesting perspective indeed! This would alleviate the need to trust the reliability of the mint at least.
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.