| Respondent Id | 10676416936 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 2019-04-20 1:02:53 |
| Application Language | English |
| Applicant City | west linn |
| Applicant State/Province | WA |
| Applicant Country | United States |
| What languages do you speak? | english |
| What is your occupation? | Full-Time Node Operator |
| How many years experience in your field? | 1-3 |
| 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? | running a theta node and 70 KB# nodes staking RDD and ONtologie |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | chelan |
| Node State | washington |
| Node Country | United States |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | KB3 Theta |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in Elixxir nodes vs. previous the previous nodes you have supported? | support |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an Elixxir node? | none |
| 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) | 47 |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? (As a percentage) | 66 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. . | .02 kw |
| 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) | 94 |
| 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? | Yes (Please list specs) |
| Yes (Please list specs) | 40MB up 600 down . 8 cores 16 threads 32 GBytes memory 2 TB disk and SSD hard drive |
| 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? | No |
| Yes (please specify) | |
| Why do you want to be a node? | B e part of the future and passive income |
| How did you originally hear about Elixxir? | Influencer Vlog |
| Which current Elixxir communities are you a member of? | Telegram |
| Are you an active member of those communities? | Yes |
| What specifically, interests you about the Elixxir platform? | cutting edge |
| Outside of Elixxir communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Theta KB3 |
| 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. | Yes (how much content on a monthly basis?) |
| If yes, how much content on a monthly basis? | 10 pages |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | One is controlled by a central entity and one is controlled by consensuses |
| 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. | n/a |
| 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? | our information on who we are and what we do is no longer ours |
| Tags | Individual, United States, English |