| Respondent Id | 10539626442 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-02-19 11:12:12 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Austin |
| Applicant State/Province | Texas |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 8-15 |
| 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? | Running meetups, building elementary blockchains for fun, investment, ERC-20 based project implementations. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Austin |
| Node State | Texas |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc) |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Nothing insubstantial. Little details have been covered well. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Minimum viable investment being too high. |
| 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) | 35 |
| 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. . | 0.04/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) | 4 |
| 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) | 4.6Ghz i7 w/ 32 megs RAM and a 4-SSD RAID-0 |
| 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: | I'm a nerd, bro. I can build at *least* 8 million new machines out of the parts laying around. |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | No |
| Yes (please specify) | |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Because Elixxir is a baller project and I enjoy supporting those. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Coindesk |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Discord |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | Yes |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Enough privacy to overcome well-organized state-level bad actors, such as the multinational data hegemony. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Of course! Bit Torrent Token is doing decently, but might be a hype-rocket. |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Negative, Ghost Rider. |
| 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? | Up to full time. |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | A decentralized system is a series of hub-spoke networks behaving cooperatively, while a distributed system forms a mesh-network. |
| 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. | High bandwidth connectivity over a distributed system with complete privacy. Both the raw speed, and granular privacy, are core differentiating factors of Elixxir. |
| 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? | Because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. |
| Tags | Individual, United States, English |