Respondent Id | 10676169986 |
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Application Date | 2019-04-19 19:27:42 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | West New York |
Applicant State/Province | NJ |
Applicant Country | United States |
What languages do you speak? | Spanish, English |
What is your occupation? | IT |
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? | 3 years in the Crypto space mining |
Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
Node City | North Bergen |
Node State | NJ |
Node Country | United States |
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? | |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | |
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) | 50 |
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. . | .09 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) | 51 |
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? | small office |
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? | Yes (Please list specs) |
Yes (Please list specs) | Dell PowerEdge T440 intel xeon |
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've been interested in running a node for a long time and think this would be a great opportunity. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Influencer Vlog |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | |
Are you an active member of those communities? | Yes |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | The Privacy feature along with the people behind the development of the platform |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | XRP, Zcash, Binance, Elastic, Neo, HOLO |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | ethereal summit |
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? | 4 hours |
What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | on a decentralized network there are several central nodes connected to each other versus distributed networks which every thing is distributed and there is no centralization. I'm indifferent towards both I find them both effective. |
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. | I feel its the way Elixxir is trying to keep users data protected from end to end. Most blockchains still contain crucial data about transactions. |
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? | We need something that is close to cash as possible. There needs to be anonymity of purchase and the people making them in order to protect peoples privacy. |
Tags | Individual, United States, English |
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