| Respondent Id | 10544366134 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-02-20 19:41:29 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Gaithersburg |
| Applicant State/Province | MD |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Spanish |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 1-3 |
| What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? | Professional degree beyond bachelor’s degree (for example: MD, DDS, DVM, LLB, JD) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | I have 12 GPUs mining since summer 2018 |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Gaithersburg |
| Node State | MD |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | |
| 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) | 100 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 97 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | US$0.143/kWh |
| 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) | 1 |
| 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: | machine 1: 11x RX 580 1x R9 390 8GB RAM CPU and SSD will need upgrade machine 2: i7-6700k 32GB RAM SSD will need upgrade Vega 64 currently have 100Megabit connection which will need upgrade |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | OpenVPN server on AWS |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I think this is good tech, and I want to get in on the ground floor. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | I don't remember. |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | It has performance and scaling characteristics exceeding VisaNet. Privacy is a primary goal. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | my job |
| 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? | It's not clear from the specs whether we are GPU, CPU, or memory-bound. This would be an interesting article. |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | A distributed network which is not decentralized has node(s) which may be in control of the decisions in which other nodes participate. In a fully decentralized network, control is shared by each node participating in decision-making. A fully decentralized network is also more resilient to failure. |
| 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. | Pre-processing provides speed exceeding VisaNet Decentralized Fault-tolerant Privacy-first Resistant to attacks by quantum algorithms |
| 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? | No one other than me should own, profit from, or in any way control my identity. Currently, we have a bunch of information silos waiting to be exploited. |
| Tags | Individual, United States, English |