| Respondent Id | 10647011865 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-07 11:22:33 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Santa Monica |
| Applicant State/Province | California |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | Enlish, Hebrew, Spanish |
| 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? | Bachelor’s degree (for example: BA. BS) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | I mined my first BTC in 2010. I am an old school cypherpunk/cryptoanarchist and actually have a Captain Crunch whistle somewhere in my storage space in New York. Since then, I have dedicated myself to becoming a blockchain expert. This effort is, of course, ongoing, but is well established. I haven't run any crypto nodes since that first BTC node, but I have lots of experience as a systems administrator, programmer, and DB admin. I'm sure I could easily handle any technical requirements (I imagine I'll end up using an AWS node or somesuch), and look forward to learning more about the project and providing feedback. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | No idea |
| Node State | Probably an AWS node |
| 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? | Speed, ease of use for non-technical users. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Depends on what the technical requirements are. I am happy to spend a few bucks on a VPS or somesuch, but if serious processing power and/or serious storage space is required, I can't really justify the outlay. |
| 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) | 8 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 98 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | no idea where I will be running. |
| 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) | 74 |
| 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? | |
| 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) | Rather limited, I've played around with AWS a bit, and it's really not rocket science... |
| Why do you want to be a node? | The tech fascinates me, as do its social implications. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | It has the potential to overcome the obstacles preventing widespread adoption of blockchain technologies. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | CryptoMondays (I host the LA meetup), ERC725. |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Yes, StartEngine this past October, and I will be attending CIS this coming week. |
| 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? | a few hours, I guess. |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Decentralization is about avoiding points of failure. Distributed networks can be taken down easily by malicious actors, decentralized ones cannot. There is, of course, a price to pay for this robustness, and this is the consensus mechanism. In general, I think each has its use cases, but it really pisses me off when organizations pass off distributed networks as truly decentralized. |
| 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. | SPEED! |
| 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? | In the early days, I thought of the internet as being inherently free (Perry Barlow's manifesto eloquently expressed a position I very much espoused). But governments have, over time, managed to completely break the thing. Blockchain is the way to fix it. |
| Tags | Individual, United States, English |
This applicant claims to host a local crypto meetup… should we seek out applicants with this sort of influence to help us build word-of-mouth for Elixxir?