| Respondent Id | 10538385860 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-02-18 23:50:22 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Singapore |
| Applicant State/Province | Singapore |
| Applicant Country | Singapore |
| What languages do you speak? | English,Chinese |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 8-15 |
| What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? | Bachelor’s degree (for example: BA. BS) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Have done CPU, GPU mining. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Singapore |
| Node State | Singapore |
| Node Country | Singapore |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Not Applicable |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Not Applicable |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | |
| What is a reasonable maximum connection speed on which you could operate a BetaNet node in your geographic region? (Where 0 = 10 Megabits/second, and 100 = 10 Gigabits/second) | 50 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 95 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 0.19 |
| On a monthly basis, how much time can you publicly commit to dedicating toward governance if you were selected as a BetaNet node operator? (Where 0 = 1 hour/month, and 100 = 20 hours/month) | 100 |
| If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? | Hardware |
| In what type of environment would this server be located? | Personal Home |
| Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | Yes (please describe) |
| Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | No |
| Yes (Please list specs) | |
| Do you have hardware you would like to use but does not meet the stated BetaNet node specs? If so, please provide specs on that hardware below: | 12 core / 24 threads @ 2.8Ghz 64GB RAM Nvidia 1070 Ti 500 Mbps network 250GB SSD |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | No |
| Yes (please specify) | |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I feel that Elixxir's goal of having a decentralized cloud for hosting applications is a wondrous goal and it will help to reduce energy wastage for the world! I also feel that the decentralized cloud will be the future where applications are no longer bounded by data center locations and can be anywhere and everywhere, with no downtime and auto node replication done autonomously. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Reddit |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | Yes |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | The ability to host applications on distributed computing systems and reduced energy wastage! |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Am currently an active participant to Storj |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | No |
| As part of growing the Elixxir community, are you willing to create content as part of operating an Elixxir BetaNet node? Examples would be node setup & on-boarding review vlog post, bi-weekly twitter update, medium review of on-going node operational process, etc. | No |
| If yes, how much content on a monthly basis? | |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | |
| As best as you can given currently available information, please describe the value proposition of the Elixxir platform and how it differs from other current blockchain solutions. | |
| Privacy by Default is a goal of the Elixxir Platform. In your opinion, why is Privacy by Default critical for the future of the internet? | |
| Tags | Individual, Singapore, English |