Respondent Id | 10539372192 |
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Application Date | 2019-02-19 9:48:44 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Canton |
Applicant State/Province | MI |
Applicant Country | United States |
What languages do you speak? | English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil |
What is your occupation? | Engineering - Director |
How many years experience in your field? | 8-15 |
What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? | Master’s degree (for example: MA, MS, MEng, MEd, MSW, MBA) |
Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Trade cryptos, XRP, BTC. Avid follower of XRP currently. Mine using Nicehash. |
Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
Node City | Canton |
Node State | Michigan |
Node Country | United States |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Ravencoin, Monero with Nicehash |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Less computing power required |
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) | 100 |
Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 100 USD |
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? | No |
Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | Yes (Please list specs) |
Yes (Please list specs) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 - 8GB, Intel® Core™ i7-8700K Processor (6x 3.70GHz/12MB L3 Cache), 1 TB Hard Drive -- 32MB Cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive, 32 GB [8 GB x4] DDR4-2400 Memory Module, 250 GB WD Blue SSD -- Read: 540MB/s, Write: 500MB/s - Single Drive, |
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: | NA |
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | No |
Yes (please specify) | |
Why do you want to be a node? | I want to support Elixxir. Help grow the ecosystem. Enabling the security and validity of transactions. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Discord |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Its decentralized platform. Digital Asset adoption worldwide. Also allowing regular people to participate in the ecosystem. I am also a big believer of the POC philosophy. POW or POS has not been able to sustain the speed and cost of cryptos currently and Proof of Consensus is the way forward. |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Nicehash for mining POW coins. I am part of XRP community currently as myself. |
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. | Yes (how much content on a monthly basis?) |
If yes, how much content on a monthly basis? | 1 - 5 |
What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Decentralized networks nodes make decisions on their own whereas distributed networks are slightly centralized in their decision making process. I am always for decentralized but also the all nodes should agree on a base set of rules. A mix of both is better IMO. |
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. | I believe current blockchains do not have all the aspects where if you have speed you need to give up something else. Elixxir has all characteristics for a better blockchain. which is capable of Speed, Scalability, Privacy and Security. |
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? | All transactions should be private. No users should be able to see others transactions. As a person I do not want others to be able to see my transactions unless I allow it to do so. |
Tags | Individual, United States, English |
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good suggestion, it would be great to have him running a node in Elixxir
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Would be a good fit.
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Good candidate
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Hi All
Nice to be selected as part of the initial list.
Surprised I am the only one in Michigan for now.
Hopefully more might join.
Thanks
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Pioneers are always followed by others😃
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