| Respondent Id | 10659257651 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-12 2:09:11 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Brussels |
| Applicant State/Province | Brussels |
| Applicant Country | Belgium |
| What languages do you speak? | english, french |
| What is your occupation? | IT |
| 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? | Active in the space for almost 5 years, performed over the last 12 months about 8 direct investments into various fieds: ICOs, Mining farms, long/short crypto positions. Ambition to raise $15-20mm in the next 6-9 months for direct and indirect investments into the crypto sphere. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | Brussels |
| Node State | Brussels |
| Node Country | Belgium |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Monero |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Not enough info to date to be able to provide any improvement suggestions. Looking forward to it. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | So far in Belgium, none. |
| 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) | 99 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 7-14c per 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) | 70 |
| 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? | 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) | We have all the required equipment to run an Elixxir node in inventory, i.e. Motherboard: Tyan Tempest HX S7105, CPU: Dual CPU Scalable 4114, RAM: 128GB, NVMe Drives: 2x480GB, 2xNvidia RTX 2070 |
| 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: | Motherboard: Tyan Tempest HX S7105, CPU: Dual CPU Scalable 4114, RAM: 128GB, NVMe Drives: 2x480GB, 2xNvidia RTX 2070 |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | Amazon, GoogleCloud, OVH, Infomaniak. |
| Why do you want to be a node? | As being a future investor in Elixxir, is key for us to secure the network and take part to the governance system. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | From one of your insiders: Margaux Avedisian. |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | It's disruptive blockchain aspects combining scalability, speed, quantum computing proof and last but not least privacy aspects. It is a real end-users oriented blockchain with a lot of potential for dApps on it. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Monero, Desir, Ripple. |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | yes. 2018: Atlantic city in July, London World Blockhain Forum in Sept, NYC CoinDesk in Dec, Belgium Up-Servers, GPU-Solutions |
| 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. | Elixxir differs from other Blockchain in the sense that it is the only one combining the 4 following aspects: speed, scalability, security (quantum computing proof) and privacy. Other blockchains only cover max 3 of them. |
| 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? | Let people choose whether they want to share their personal data, if so let them be paid for it. Anyways, EU regulation is more prone for data protection (GDPR regulation) |
| Tags | Group, Belgium, English |
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The Dutch connection with the equipment, +1
Hi, good point on GDPR. Elixxir solve the problem.