Respondent Id | 10675719260 |
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Application Date | 2019-04-19 13:24:36 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Stuttgart |
Applicant State/Province | Baden-Württemberg |
Applicant Country | Germany |
What languages do you speak? | German english polish |
What is your occupation? | Engineer |
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? | Trader, Fan, enthusiast, |
Are you an individual or a group? | |
Node City | Stuttgart |
Node State | Baden-Württemberg |
Node Country | Germany |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | A very good UI |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Server costs |
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. . | 36 eurocent |
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) | 10 |
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? | Datacenter |
Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | No |
Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | No |
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: | I7 7600 32gb ram gtx1060 internet 400 down / 50mbit upload |
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | No |
Yes (please specify) | |
Why do you want to be a node? | All the stuff i ve read about elixxir and about david with his history makes me thing that elixxir might be the next thing for privacy |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Medium, Twitter |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | The approach on privacy. Im looking forward to see the new cryptohtaphy which is going to be implemented |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | No |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | No |
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 | Germany, English |
I think the key to our success will having a decentralized network with nodes in as many countries as possible. Excited that Germany is in the mix.
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