| Respondent Id | 10675892694 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-19 15:24:09 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | Katerini |
| Applicant State/Province | Pieria |
| Applicant Country | Greece |
| What languages do you speak? | Engish, Greek |
| 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? | Master’s degree (for example: MA, MS, MEng, MEd, MSW, MBA) |
| Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Fully working on blockchain space since 2013 |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Katerini |
| Node State | Pieria |
| Node Country | Greece |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | EOS, Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Tezos, BTS STEEM TOMO SEMUX REN AURADAO ZCOIN , DASH |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Fast update, or at least efficient git pulling. |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | The worst setback is when you are asleep, and thats when all the problems take place. |
| 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, i am fully on solar energy. |
| 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 Datacenter - Mining facility |
| 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) | Intel 6950x extreme 20core, 128gb ram, 2tb Raid0 ssds. |
| 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: | As a professional miner, there are too many free resources in terms of cpu power. From i5 to i7 cpus. And some ryzen 2700x. |
| Do you have past experience deploying servers to cloud-based services? | Yes (please specify) |
| Yes (please specify) | AWS, google, hetzner, Digital Ocean. |
| Why do you want to be a node? | More experience, and of course long term profit. |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram, Reddit |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | New ideas and approaches on some problems that other platforms are facing. |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | I am active participant in steem, and tomo communities. |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | No, most of the are far away. |
| 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? | The question is not that clear, does it mean hours? number of words for a post? But in any case i am willing to do it. |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Honestly, the problem is that 99% of the humans are sheep, so some centralization is needed. Most of the people are good for being workers and not bosses. So i am betting 30% centralised and 70% de-centralized. A totally free environment will just create chaos. |
| 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. | So far its just a "theory" When we actually switch to real usage scenarios and real life problem solving. Then i will readjust this one. |
| 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? | I like to have the option to choose. Some times for example. google ads are helpfull to help me look what i am looking for. But sometimes they are just annoying. So i would like to have the option to be "cookied" or not. |
| Tags | Individual, Greece, English |
This node applicant says they run fully on solar power… that seems like an interesting selling point.