| Respondent ID | 11626577031 |
|---|---|
| Application Date | 05/22/2020 08:22:22 AM |
| Applicant City | Gaillard |
| Applicant State/Province | Rhone-Alpes |
| Applicant Country | France |
| What languages do you speak? | French, English |
| What is your occupation? | Software Development |
| 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? | Yes |
| Are you an individual or a group? | Individual |
| Node City | Helsinki |
| Node Province | Helsinki |
| Node Country | Finland |
| For which networks Have you ever operated a node? | Komodo |
| What kind of improvements would you like to see in xx network nodes vs. previous nodes you have supported? | Increased privacy protection |
| What are potential setbacks preventing you from operating an xx network node? | None |
| What is a reasonable uptime estimate you can provide for your BetaNet node? | 95 |
| Please estimate the cost of electricity in the geographic area where your BetaNet node will be running. | 0.188 U.S. Dollar per 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?` | 50 |
| Connection speed | 70Mbps |
| In what type of environment would this server be located? | Cloud |
| 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)? | |
| Specs | AMD Ryzen 9 3900 12-Core 128 GB DDR4 ECC 2x 1.92 TB NVMe SSD Datacenter Edition |
| Why do you want to be a node? | Contribute the project for increased privacy |
| How did you originally hear about the xx network? | Word of Mouth |
| 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? | Privacy protection |
| Outside of xx network communities, are you an active participant in other node or developer community groups? If so, which ones? | Komodo notary node |
| Have you ever attended a blockchain conference? If so, which one(s)? | As the director of the blockchain certificate at the University of Geneva, I've talked to several blockchain conferences |
| 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCLYQny4FM, Meetup group management: https://www.meetup.com/Crypto-Monnaies-ICO-Bitcoin-Geneve-Geneva/ |
| 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. | 1 |
| Would you be interested in helping to lead the development of the next xx network community? | Yes |
| Why do you want to run a node in the xx network? | To protect the privacy of political speech, To protect private personal communication around health and lifestyle issues from mass surveillance and abuse by centralized organizations, To promote quantum secure distributed systems |
| Other Reasons | |
| What is the difference between decentralized networks and distributed networks, and where on the decentralization spectrum do you sit? | Distributed servers may have central parts, fully decentralized don't have central parts. I research towards attack-resistant decentralized ones. |
| 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. | Fully decentralized messaging, privacy protecting, quantum resistance |
| 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? | Critical for the people privacy |
| In your opinion, what threat, if any, do quantum computers pose toward decentralized systems? What about centralized systems? | quantum computers can break old encryption in both decentralized and centralized systems. Fewer data to be decrypted may be available easily on decentralized systems. |
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