| Respondent Id | 10586097421 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-03-11 21:46:42 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | SEATTLE |
| Applicant State/Province | Washington |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Spanish, Polish |
| What is your occupation? | Business Development Executive |
| How many years experience in your field? | 16+ |
| 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? | In crypto space for ~20 months. Run a small 75 ASIC mining operation. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | SEATTLE |
| Node State | WA |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Lightning |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Support for recovery from HW - HD failure. Though I will run in RAID configuration. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Potentially network. Mine maxes out at 500MB |
| 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) | 98 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 0.12 KW/h, though I have ~10KW of solar during the day. |
| 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) | 60 |
| 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 at first, then my mining facility. Simple datacenter. |
| 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? | Yes (Please list specs) |
| Yes (Please list specs) | AMD Ryzen 7, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX1080ti, 2 x 2GB HD in RAID 1 Configuration, 500MB internet, Ubuntu 18.4 (but that can be anything) |
| 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: | |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | Azure and AWS |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I want to contribute to the Elixxir network and see Elixxir grow. I am interested in an alternative to POW and Bitcoin. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Spoke to Stephanie at a Seattle meet up, been following since then. |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Discord, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | Yes |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Potential to realize peer-to-peer cash vision |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | BTC, especially LN |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Just local meet-ups in Seattle |
| 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? | Well, I would employ Jessie to do it for me, see videos on @AGAPlatform1 |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Amazon is distributed, bitcoin is decentralized. Distributed is great, decentralized is boundryless |
| 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. | Performance to match VISA, not POW, decentralized and private |
| 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? | Decentralized and private is needed to survive. |
| Tags | Group, United States, English |
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I recently upgraded my network, and now have a 1 GB line. So, that also should not be a problem. I am looking forward to the Beta phase.
1MORLAP on Discord as well. I have my Elixxir server built and ready to go, just waiting for the software.