| Respondent Id | 10658556023 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-11 16:58:24 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | KAZAN |
| Applicant State/Province | |
| Applicant Country | Russia |
| What languages do you speak? | English, Russian |
| 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? | Software developer, block-chain developer, winner of few fintech hackathons. I'm running Youtube-channel (all videos about ICO, 8300+ subscribers) and I made a promotional review about Elixxir. I want to make a new one, please provide a ref link ASAP |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Group |
| Node City | Moscow |
| Node State | |
| Node Country | Russia |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc) |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Difficult to specify, I like your concept and I want to be involved to provide my educated opinion |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | I'm ready to run an Elixxir node and share information about it on my Youtube, website and telegram channel |
| 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) | 100 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 100 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | ~ $0,06 kw/h |
| 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? | Special office |
| 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) | I have GPU. I'm planning to order CPU 8 Ryzen 7 2700X, GPU Nvidia RTX 2070, RAM 2x8Gb, SSD 2.5T as soon as I will get your confirmation |
| 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) | Started few webservers on Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Hetzner |
| Why do you want to be a node? | I know David Chaum since my university graduation and I want to make closer Elixxir's platform |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Chris Larsen's tweet |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Reddit, Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | PRIVACY, SPEED, SECURITY, SCALE :) |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | NuCypher, NEO |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | Icoin Summit, Nakamoto's Den (Cyprus) |
| 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? | weekly posts and tweets, monthly videos |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | decentralized network refer to levels of control (where the decision is made), distributed network refers to differences of location. My blockchain experience covers decentralized networks with low throughput. |
| 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. | Elixxir is a privacy-protecting transaction platform supporting dApps, messaging & payments. Both high speed and high 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? | To make impossible for a governments and corporations to seize control or censor our communication |
| Tags | Group, Russia, English |
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Yes. Decent application.