| Respondent Id | 10661594392 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-13 0:34:55 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Saratoga |
| Applicant State/Province | CA |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English, French |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 16+ |
| 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? | started getting involved in 2012, running bitcoin nodes, miners, and a few others like LTC, FeatherCoin, and more recently ETH contracts, as well as Blocktack, DGTX, BNB and more. Some trading experience as well as running arbitrage bots. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Saratoga |
| Node State | CA |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc) |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | HW support can be finicky at times, so having plenty of documentation and troubleshooting would help |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | local regulations? time required, although a distant second if the software does not fail often, or does not require things like daily updates (unless automated) |
| 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) | 20 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 95 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | no idea, not relevant for the beta |
| 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? | starting with home, eventually local datacenter, but does not exclude running in a remote datacenter, mostly europe |
| 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 2700X, 32Gb RAM, 2TB SSD, GIGABYTE GeForce 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: | Also have iMac Pro I could try to use with eGPU if supported |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | yes, have been deploying servers to linode, heroku, AWS, Openstack, and many more |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Definitely feels like a worthy endeavor, feel strongly about the space, and missed the initial wave of Ethereum, because I did not get what it was about, so trying not to repeat the same mistake... |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | privacy aspect along with scaling possibility (distant second, I guess, at least initially) Number of nodes in beta is unlikely to achieve either conclusively, but there seems to be a way to get there eventually. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | no, except some local meetup. These tend not to be a very efficient use of time. |
| 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 article per month, deep dive kind of thing |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | depends on how easy for a single entity to take control of the network. The more decentralized, the least likely, and the better. |
| 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. | besides being a lot more energy efficient by randomly selecting the voting nodes each iteration, the privacy aspect is the key feature, but may be the most challenging aspect going forward. |
| 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? | Emphatically, yes! People seem to be light the deer in the headlights and don't realize all the ramification. |
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