| Respondent Id | 10653304665 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-09 21:35:27 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Vancouver |
| Applicant State/Province | BC |
| Applicant Country | Canada |
| What languages do you speak? | English, French |
| What is your occupation? | Full-Time Node Operator |
| 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? | I run one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in North America. It is a listed public company. |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | Vancouver |
| Node State | BC |
| Node Country | Canada |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Monero, Steem, Loki, DASH |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Ease of use and reliability of software. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | None. |
| 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) | 99 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | $0.02 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) | 100 |
| 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? | Datacenter |
| 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) | We own our own facilities plus we have rooms in major interconnects in Toronto, NYC and Mozambique |
| 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) | Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Digital Ocean. Also our team has strong sys admin, devops experience including most enterprise stacks like Kubernetes, etc. |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I like the concept of Elixxir and think its the right evolution for the space. |
| 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? | That it serves a useful purpose and scalable privacy. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | I've spoken at many, I used to run one of the first as well, The Blockchain Event, in partnership with TMCNET. |
| 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? | We have a whole PR team and a number of social media managers. We will be helping to bring considerable awareness to the project. |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | I think its all relative. In the context of Blockchain networks, I think its mostly about arbitration and the metric for that.. I believe whatever makes sense for the problem and requirements at hand. |
| 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. | Transaction speed and scalability while maintaining end-to-end transactional and communications 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 its necessary to protect everyones right to freedom of speech. |
| Tags | Group, Canada, English |
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