Respondent Id | 10676373835 |
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Application Date | 2019-04-19 23:51:26 |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Nashville |
Applicant State/Province | Tennessee |
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? | Some college |
Please describe your experience in the Crypto/Blockchain space, if any? | Miner development. |
Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
Node City | Nashville |
Node State | Tennessee |
Node Country | United States |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Bitcoin (BTC, BCH, etc), Ethereum (ETH, ETC, etc), Tezos, Monero, Zencash secure nodes x24 |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | Blockchain sync speed |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | Time. |
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) | 100 |
Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | 0.10c Usd/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) | 1 |
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? | Personal Home |
Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | No |
Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published Elixxir BetaNet node specifications? | Yes (Please list specs) |
Yes (Please list specs) | Intel Xeon 96gb ram ssd |
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) | Digital ocean and linode. Salt stack. |
Why do you want to be a node? | Supporting the network. I believe in the future of money. |
How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Word of Mouth |
Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Discord |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | New technology. |
Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Fpga development. |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | |
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. | No |
If yes, how much content on a monthly basis? | |
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 |