Respondent Id | 10661597506 |
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Application Date | 2019-04-13 0:47:52 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Toronto |
Applicant State/Province | Ontario |
Applicant Country | Canada |
What languages do you speak? | English, French |
What is your occupation? | Privacy/Security |
How many years experience in your field? | 4-7 |
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? | Operating nodes and investing since 2012 |
Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
Node City | London |
Node State | |
Node Country | United Kingdom |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Ravencoin |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Running on a regular laptop! |
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) | 51 |
What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 40 |
Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | Not sure |
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) | 49 |
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? | Yes (Please list specs) |
Yes (Please list specs) | Yes |
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: | No |
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
Yes (please specify) | Variety of experience |
Why do you want to be a node? | Good fun |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Newsletter |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Medium |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Fixing the trilemna, usable currency |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | All |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | All |
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? | Yes I am |
What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Depends on the use case |
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? | Safety and security of all, identity and data is part of an individuals identity |
Tags | Individual, United Kingdom, English |
Interesting that this applicant wants to run a node for “good fun”! Anyone have thoughts on how valuable a node runner’s incentives are?
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