| Respondent Id | 10541135928 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-02-19 20:48:55 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Sydney |
| Applicant State/Province | NSW |
| Applicant Country | Australia |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Greek |
| 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? | Bachelor’s degree (for example: BA. BS) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Head of Research for an investing firm. Also maintain mining/node operations for multiple cryptocurrencies (Loki,Decred,PivX,Eth, Moneroetc) |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | Sydney |
| Node State | NSW |
| Node Country | Australia |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Monero, Loki, PIVX, Decred etc |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Improved autostaking features. Dynamic reward payouts. Faster blockchain synchronization on init. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | None at hte moment |
| 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) | 53 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 90 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 13.134 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) | 50 |
| If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? | Both |
| In what type of environment would this server be located? | Office space |
| 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) | As per your minimum spec guide. For mainnet we could provide more. |
| 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: | No |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | Digital Ocean, Vultr, IBM, Amazon etc |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Economic incentives + security reassurances |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Reddit, Discord, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | We're always investing in different consensus mechanisms and we like David Chaum. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Loki, Decred |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Too many to list. Most recently Consensus. |
| 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? | Distributed is what the traditional e-commerce systems follow i.e centralised control/decision making where uptime/data retention etc are maximised as nodes are distributed/load-balanced across different servers/geographical locations etc. Decentralized is where the control/decision making is done independently by a node or cluster of nodes that can be part of the network as they follow the same rules as other independent nodes but are acting independently. |
| 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. | Can scale but more importantly its a novel way of ensuring privacy. |
| 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 we made mistakes when we built out the internet / TCP/IP and other protocols; which resulted in todays world where ISPs can censor/redirect/monitor traffic. Privacy should be considered a basic human requirement and should be in the lowest tiers of maslows pyramid. |
| Tags | Group, Australia, English |
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Qualified Node runner +1
10% node downtime seems kinda high. Figure internet outages, pc upgrades, node updates, would be a lot less than that. 10% downtime would be 1.2 months a year down. i’m guessing you didn’t mean that much downtime. You got my vote. Best of luck to you.