Use exchange rate update criteria to determine if a witness is online.

If a witness doesn't feed exchange rate in over 24 hours, it is considered off-line. Otherwise it keeps receiving work to do. If a witness considered to be off-line-by-lack-of-feed feeds exchange rate, it is back considered on-line.

This would ensure that only active witnesses keep receiving work to do.

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