Respondent Id |
10675128805 |
Application Date |
2019-04-19 7:19:08 |
Application Language |
English |
Applicant City |
Ljubljana |
Applicant State/Province |
Ljubljana |
Applicant Country |
Slovenia |
What languages do you speak? |
English, Slovenian, Italian, Croatian, Serbian |
What is your occupation? |
IT |
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? |
Actively engaged in Crypto/Blockchain space since 2013. |
Are you an individual or a group? |
Individual |
Node City |
Ljubljana |
Node State |
Ljubljana |
Node Country |
Slovenia |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? |
Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), My own hard and soft forks of Bitcoin, just to play and gain experience in how exactly the whole ecosystem works., DASH |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? |
Fair compensation relative to the contribution to Elixxir ecosystem. |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? |
Loosing money by operating Elixxir node, in other words it has to pay at least for itself. |
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. . |
0.07 EUR/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) |
75 |
If you were selected to run a BetaNet node, would it run on your own hardware or be deployed to cloud-based servers? |
Hardware |
In what type of environment would this server be located? |
Porsonal Home, 19" rack in a phisically secured, dedicated, air-cooled room. |
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) |
AMD Ryzen 7, 64GB RAM memory, 2x 8GB SATA HDD, high-speed Internet (500MB/sec) |
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: |
n/a |
Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? |
Yes (please specify) |
Yes (please specify) |
aws, google cloud, |
Why do you want to be a node? |
To be active participant and contribute to establish, maintain and keep a platform that provides truly private and secure messaging and exchange of value among individuals globally. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? |
Initialy heard about Elixxir in Crypto space, and meet in person with David and his team at the Elixxir Launch Party at TAO on October 24, 2018 in Las Vegas. |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? |
Telegram, Reddit, Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium, Twitter |
Are you an active member of those communities? |
Yes |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? |
I see Elixxir as a realistic option to establish digital sovereignty on the Internet. Digital sovereignty is a key requirement to realize human potential in the future. |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? |
https://interledger.org/ https://www.hedera.com/ https://www.cardano.org/ Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? |
I attended numerous Bitcoin conferences all over the world since 2013. I co-organized Bitcoin Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2014. |
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? |
5h of my work |
What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? |
decentralized network is a subset of distributed network |
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 step on the way to digital sovereignty. Speed + Privacy > Scalability > Security A team of nodes (chosen randomly) produces a block vs a node produces a block. Data and Metadata are protected! It is very fast, uses per-computation and it is designed and build in specific way that guarantees privacy of messages and transactions transmitted over Elixxir network. Once the message gets from A to B it is impossible to trace it (tubes are destroyed). |
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? |
Privacy by Default in my opinion a must for the future of Internet. In this way we put individual in control of his Privacy on the Internet. Privacy in the Internet is a condition for a free Internet. It is very important that individual has a control on his privacy in a digital world. Privacy on the Internet is essential to freedom and liberty of individual. |
Tags |
Individual, Slovenia, English |