Node Application 10539372192, submitted 2019-02-19 9:48:44

Respondent Id 10539372192
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? Twitter
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 :ok_hand:

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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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