Respondent Id |
10674057491 |
Application Date |
2019-04-18 15:54:31 |
Application Language |
English |
Applicant City |
San Francisco |
Applicant State/Province |
CA |
Applicant Country |
United States |
What languages do you speak? |
English |
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? |
Some college |
Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? |
One of the architects of a major cryptocurrency. |
Are you an individual or a group? |
Individual |
Node City |
Tiburon |
Node State |
CA |
Node Country |
United States |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? |
Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Tezos, XRP |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? |
Improvement in performance and resource consumption, better alignment of incentives. |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? |
Excessive resource consumption, security issues, software bugs. |
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) |
58 |
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. . |
20 cents 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) |
23 |
If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? |
Hardware |
In what type of environment would this server be located? |
Server room in facility that houses servers and is used as a residence |
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) |
Dedicated hardware. Core i9-9900X, 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD, RTX 2070 GPU, 1Gbps connection shared with other blockchain nodes |
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) |
CTO at Ripple. Maintained cloud storage system for WebMaster Inc (Santa Clara software company that provided cloud storage to government and military) about ten years ago. |
Why do you want to be a node? |
To learn more about Elixxir and see its governance in action. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? |
Word of Mouth |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? |
Reddit, Twitter |
Are you an active member of those communities? |
No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? |
Scaling and quantum resistance. |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? |
Early bitcoin developer, active XRP Ledger developer. |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? |
Spoken at too many blockchain conferences to list. Travel regularly to blockchain and finance conferences speaking on blockchain subjects. |
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? |
Decentralized networks have no administrative functions and nobody has any legal right to control how the network functions. I'm not particular interested in networks that don't meet that criterion. |
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 can scale while preserving decentralization and maintaining low transaction cost. |
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? |
If privacy is opt in, things that are private will stick out and automatically draw suspicion. The boundaries between what is private and what is not will compromise what is private. |
Tags |
Individual, United States, English |