Respondent ID | 11919068675 |
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Application Date | 08/20/2020 9:55:31 AM |
Application Language | English |
Applicant City | Grenoble |
Applicant State/Province | |
Applicant Country | France |
What languages do you speak? | French, English |
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? | Doctorate or other terminal degree (for example, PhD, EdD) |
Did you purchase xx coins in the xx coin sale? | No |
Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
Node City | Lyon |
Node Province | |
Node Country | France |
For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Algorand |
What kind of improvements would you like to see in xx network nodes vs. previous nodes you have supported? | Right now I don't have any suggestion to offer since I am in a learning phase. |
What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an xx network node? | Apart from the technical requirements I don't see any at the time. |
What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? | 90 |
Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. | 0.15€ for 1 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?` | 5 |
What is the maximum upload bandwidth in megabits per second your node can provide? | 500 |
What is the maximum download bandwidth in megabits per second your node can provide? | 500 |
In what type of environment would this server be located? | Datacenter |
Do you have past experience deploying hardware servers in a datacenter? | No |
Do you already own sufficient hardware to meet the published xx network BetaNet Node specifications (found here)? | Yes (Please list specs) |
Specs | 8 Vcore / 8 G RAM/ 50 G SSD applying for a Gateway node. |
Why do you want to be a node? | I am working on developing my skill set and knowledge in the blockchain/Crypto. I am interested in starting in a network from the start to have an intimate knowledge of it: my expertise will organically grow in par with the network. Another interesting point for me is the stress on privacy issues that meets my ethics. |
How did you originally hear about the xx network? | while gathering information on blockchain technologies and smart contracts infrastructure. |
Which current xx network communities are you a member of? | |
Are you an active member of those communities? | No |
What specifically, interests you about the xx network platform? | Development of smart contracts on top of the xxnetwork. |
Outside of xx network communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | I have run some tests on the algorand test network. I am learning at the time of writing and do not consider myself as an active developer yet. |
Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | No. |
Do you have past experience managing communities or creating content to be distributed across social media? Please enter details for all with which you are comfortable or have experience: | Instructional video content: I had to make some instructional videos for university classes during the covid19 lockdown in France. Mainly recording as a gamer (recording the screen with audio), Community Management Other: I am the host of a scientific podcast |
As part of growing the xx network community, are you willing to create content as part of operating an xx network 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. | I can imagine dedicating few hours (in a the range 4 to 10) a month. Let's see how things will evolve. |
Would you be interested in helping to lead the development of the next xx network community? | No |
Why do you want to run a node in the xx network? | To protect the privacy of political speech, To earn xx coins, To help build true digital cash to fuel a decentralized economy, My deep philosophical motivation is in participating in a project in which the interactions between the ideal/virtual world and objective world are new. Crypto brings objective qualities (double spending) in a virtual world and cryptos bring ideal qualities (essentially a wallet is just a number) to the objective world. |
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 xx network platform and how it differs from other current blockchain solutions. | |
Privacy by Default is a goal of the xx network Platform. In your opinion, why is Privacy by Default critical for the future of the internet? | I have this idea : new information technologies are changing our institutions deeply. We are living with institutions well suited for a culture based on writing (writing has a cost, it is hard to disseminate, corrections are not cost-free etc.). I think we need to develop new institutions for digital age. I wrote some article on Medium on this subject. |
In your opinion, what threat, if any, do quantum computers pose toward decentralized systems? What about centralized systems? | I am not sure that quantum computers pose such a large threat 'in general'. There are few quantum algorithm, and I suspect that quantum computers are hard to program (essentially because the size of the space to handle grows exponentially in the number of qbits and you only have text/words to do so). I am more worried about the P vs NP question and the existence of truly secure hash functions. |
A node operator has to run the xx node and a xx gateway … Can you commit to the xxnode too? Do you have the Hardware required and the Bandwidth?
Agree with snapo84
Hello,
I didn’t get that it was required to rule a node and a gateway. I could run a gateway but it looks hard (because of hardware specs) to have a node.