Node Application 10674871702, submitted 2019-04-19 3:32:11

Respondent Id 10674871702
Application Date 2019-04-19 3:32:11
Application Language English
Applicant City Northampton
Applicant State/Province Northamptonshire
Applicant Country United Kingdom
What languages do you speak? Russian, English
What is your occupation? Full-Time Node Operator
How many years experience in your field? 4-7
What is the highest degree or level of school you have completed? Some college
Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? Trader, investor, holder, analyst
Are you an individual or a group? Individual
Node City Northampton
Node State Northamptonshire
Node Country United Kingdom
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? EOS, Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Lots of startups for my own experiment , DASH
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? Equal staking, not to crazy and not to low price/reward ratio/timing, working team, support, alive twitter
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? 100-120%
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) 51
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. . 0.12£kit/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? 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? 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:
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? Yes (please specify)
Yes (please specify) Win NT servers for trading bots and Linux for masternides and my own uses
Why do you want to be a node? Why not ? I like new experience
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? Twitter
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? Telegram, Facebook, Twitter
Are you an active member of those communities? No
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? All this sphere and people who got same interest
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? Yes
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? No
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? 5-10 post
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?
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