| Respondent Id | 10655723187 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-10 16:53:00 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Kiryat Tivon |
| Applicant State/Province | |
| Applicant Country | Israel |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Hebrew, Spanish |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 16+ |
| What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? | Master’s degree (for example: MA, MS, MEng, MEd, MSW, MBA) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | I’m a serial entrepreneur. Co-founded and was the CTO in a number of startups. Sold 3 of them to large US companies. My expertise is in networking, cloud computing and security. I know about blockchain since 2011, but only got active in 2017. Researching and studying many blockchain projects, invested in about a hundred project to date, and am also advising a few. Running nodes for a few other projects (current focus on Harmony and Zenon). |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Kiryat Tivon (can change easily if a vps is possible) |
| Node State | |
| Node Country | Israel |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Zenon (running a number of nodes), Harmony (testing currently). Going to run Tezos and PAL shortly |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | I don’t have enough information to answer that at this point. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | N/A |
| 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) | 95 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | Currently all my nodes are vps so I don’t have that estimate |
| 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? | 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? | No |
| 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: | I rather use a vps if possible at all |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | I have a dozen of servers at DigitalOcean (around the globe), and also a couple at AWS. |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Elixxir is an interesting project and I’d like to be exposed to it and contribute to it. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Reddit, Discord, Medium, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | I’m always interested in projects that push the envelope on the technology front to the next level. Elixxir seems like it belongs in that category |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Zenon, Harmony |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | 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. | Yes (how much content on a monthly basis?) |
| If yes, how much content on a monthly basis? | 1 article |
| 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, Israel, English |