Respondent Id | 10672956609 |
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Application Date | 2019-04-18 8:45:03 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Strathroy |
Applicant State/Province | Ontario |
Applicant Country | Canada |
What languages do you speak? | English |
What is your occupation? | Consulting and Venture Capital |
How many years experience in your field? | 8-15 |
What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? | Some college |
Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | A bitcoin evangelist and venture capital managing partner, [I have been] in the blockchain technology space since 2011. Before this, [I] was a pioneer in the social gaming space, managing virtual economies for Facebook, and iOS games with millions of users. [I am] an extremely well-known face in the digital Currency space, and with his partners has developed quantitative algorithmic trading strategies for traditional markets and cryptocurrency trading. [I serve] as advisor to the ICO portfolio team, [and personally hold] more than 100 different currencies. |
Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
Node City | Strathroy |
Node State | Ontario |
Node Country | Canada |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), GoByte (GBX) |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Faster synchronization |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | N/A |
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) | 10 |
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. . | 6.5 ¢/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) | 4 |
If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? | Cloud-Based Servers |
In what type of environment would this server be located? | |
Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | |
Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | |
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: | |
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
Yes (please specify) | Have used a cloud-based server for other nodes and masternodes |
Why do you want to be a node? | I am interested and want to support the project, and know the Elixxir management team. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Know the management team |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Twitter |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | One aspect is the quantum resistance that many projects do not give enough attention. |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Lightning and some others. |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Many different conferences, including Satoshi Roundtable. |
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 | Group, Canada, English |
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great u have my vote!
Since you know the management team and want N gives me confidence N our project. You have my vote
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