| Respondent Id | 10674922650 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-19 4:26:31 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Zug |
| Applicant State/Province | ZG |
| Applicant Country | Switzerland |
| What languages do you speak? | English, German |
| 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? | Doctorate or other terminal degree (for example, PhD, EdD) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Educating and building blockchain based applications for 4 years professionally |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | Zug |
| Node State | ug |
| Node Country | Switzerland |
| 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? | Make sure the documentation actually works. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Too much interaction in early software issues (more than 2-3 times per week) |
| 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) | 95 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | No idea, included in rent (within reason) |
| 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) | 25 |
| 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? | Office of our company |
| 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) | 1 rack of servers that were running in production until 2016, don't know all 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? | No |
| Yes (please specify) | |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I want to learn how Elixxir really works and contribute to the community |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Meeting David and team in our office |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Privacy and 3rd gen blockchain |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | We develop hope.network - a privacy-preserving messaging protocol |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Ethereum Devcon 1, 2, 3, 4 and various smaller venues such as token summit (speaker in 2018 and 2019) |
| 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 post |
| 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, Switzerland, English |
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