| Respondent Id | 10613574563 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-03-23 4:59:10 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Fourways |
| Applicant State/Province | Gauteng |
| Applicant Country | South Africa |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Afrikaans |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 1-3 |
| 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? | I first started mining ethereum in 2016 and since then have been researching the crypto space. From there I did my university research paper on the Current Limitations and Future possibilities of Blockchain technology. And then after this I developed a basic voting platform on the ethereum Test Net Ropsten which was successful for my office fun day. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Pretoria |
| Node State | Gauteng |
| Node Country | South Africa |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Minexcoin |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Better speed and confirmation times of transactions on within the network, allowing high volumes and better privicy with these transactions |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Currently our country suffers from loadshedding but this is overcome through an inverter that will keep the node online even when the power goes out |
| 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) | 10 |
| 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. . | R500 which is around 35 USD per month |
| 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) | 100 |
| 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? | |
| Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | |
| Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | |
| 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: | |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | I have deployed various masternodes to cloud based servers, while i worked for a bank i deployed to cloud based servers and have been using the google cloud platform for development and deploymeny recently |
| Why do you want to be a node? | It is an exciting opportunity that will teach me a lot about the crypto space and being a believer in the project I am excited to be apart of it |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Influencer Vlog |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | David Chaum as I have been a long time fan as well as community around Elixxir. I am very interested in the speed of performance with privacy aspect of Elixxir. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | I am not an active member in many due to my learning nature as I am still learning a lot about blockchain everyday but i am in the groups of minexcoin |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | No not as of yet i was meant to attend the one in south africa last august but was not allowed off work to go to it |
| 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? | |
| 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 | Individual, South Africa, English |
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