| Respondent Id | 10670667306 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-17 11:02:05 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | New York |
| Applicant State/Province | NYC |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | English |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| How many years experience in your field? | 4-7 |
| 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? | |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | New York |
| Node State | NYC |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Tezos, Monero, Wagerr, PIVX, Binance Testnet, DASH |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | I would like to see an improvement to setup a sentry architecture in order to protect Elixxir Nodes from DDoS attacks. The other projects node operators are just renting a simple cloud server and their nodes are getting compromised. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Probably the cost of operating the node especially if the rewards vs operation costs |
| 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) | 70 |
| 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 |
| 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) | We are deploying a multiregion with sentry and virtual private environments and orchestrate the nodes with Kubernetes also, we write custom monitor scripts in order to keep checking the nodes in case of overload, crashing, etc and the scripts are taking care automatically possibly any setbacks. We are experienced using AWS, AZURE, DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud & IBM. |
| Why do you want to be a node? | We would love to contribute to the backbone of Elixxir decentralization and secure the network. Our personal mission is to help promising projects by running their node |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Twitter |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | Privacy and Scale |
| 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)? | LaToken as Panelist & Decentralized as Speaker |
| 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? | 2 articles per month |
| 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, United States, English |
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