| Respondent Id | 10675072723 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-19 6:48:29 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Birmingham |
| Applicant State/Province | AL |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English, spanish, rabble |
| 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? | Master’s degree (for example: MA, MS, MEng, MEd, MSW, MBA) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | I am co founder and CEO of [an authentication firm]. I have published academic papers on crypto market efficiency, launched my own tokens, developed short-horizon btc price prediction trading algos, and started the blockchain working group for Bill Gates Investments. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Birmingham |
| Node State | Alabama |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Monero, Namecoin, litecoin, and many more, DASH |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Everything you claim to have improved. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Failed architecture, failed consensus mechanism design, EMPs, human extinction, or societal collapse. |
| 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) | 40 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 100 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | $0.11/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) | 60 |
| 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? | 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) | Many many rigs. Can run a 200+gb ram, 16 xeon processor, 24 decent gpus, and more. Havent optimized the rig for elixxir yet |
| 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: | Can discuss later. Have lots. Also have a half rack in a datacenter In Seattle I could allocate |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | Dev and prod environments, elastic aws lambda optimization, VMs, old school S3 “pet” server optimization, terraform and elastic search scaling optimizations |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Seems like yall are onto something badass. I want to help support it and also look to see if we’d leverage it for our trustless authentication protocol. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | |
| 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? | Consensus mechanism |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Ethereum, kiichain, BAT |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | So many. DC summit (3 yrs), consensus (2 yrs), synchronize, rsa, others.. |
| 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? | 1-2 excellent pieces |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Ugh im on my phone. Short answer: governance model and incentive structures. (Also economic aspects of consensus mechanisms) |
| 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. | Read your own published info. I read it all. Im not going to waste time here. |
| 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? | Privacy preservation is crucial to freedom |
| Tags | Individual, United States, English |
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great, you is perfect for colaborate beta node Elixxir, big experience. u have my vote
Like your approach and you certainly seem to have the hardware.