| Respondent Id | 10656519914 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-11 2:37:03 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | London |
| Applicant State/Province | London |
| Applicant Country | United Kingdom |
| What languages do you speak? | German, English, Danish |
| What is your occupation? | MBA student, business development through blockchain |
| How many years experience in your field? | 4-7 |
| 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? | Entered the blockchain space in 2014 and ran a full bitcoin node in 2015. Since 2016, I worked with venture capital firms focussing on blockchain innovation and blockchain enabled businesses. I am currently completing an MBA to study blockchain enabled business models. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | London |
| Node State | London |
| Node Country | United Kingdom |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Monero |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Easy user interface for layman to run a node. Ideally, no programming skills should be required and people should run a node through their wallet. Online and offline support. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | None at the moment. |
| 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) | 21 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 90 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 16.21 USD/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) | 100 |
| If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? | Both |
| 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: | Would need to learn more about hardware requirements |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | AWS |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Support network Analyse network efficiency Develop decentralised business models |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Facebook |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Innovation, quality of team |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Bitcoin |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | DevCon 2017, Blockchain summer school 2017 Copenhagen, Ethereal 2017 San Francisco, Consensys 2017 |
| 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, United Kingdom, English |