For miners, the HIVE price of LEO is not important.

We would be using LEO to buy them and getting LEO as a reward. HIVE is only used as a way to convert LEO into LEO miners. After they are bought, the HIVE price of LEO does not factor in because LEO miners reward in LEO.

When you put 1 BTC into an interest-paying account that pays 5% per year, after 1 year you will have 1.05 BTC. You will have earned 5% BTC, it will take around 20 years to earn 1 full BTC. The dollar price of BTC does not factor into this. You earn a certain amount of BTC every year, not dollars, BTC.

If LEO increases in HIVE are dollar value, the return on miners is not greater are smaller valued in LEO because they still earn the same amount of LEO.

Shit, maybe im really bad at explaining this. haha

As far as having skin int he game to be part of the governance team, we can't really be picky and wallet size is not that important if the output is good.