Hello Folks,
This is just an informal introduction of our EOS Block Producer candidacy to all of you net freedom, blockchain and crypto-world lovers out there. Much like you all we also believe that there is a lot the world can gain by blockchain and cryptospace - especially individual freedom, right to express, rights to protect one's property and so on and so forth.
Well, now let us get to introducing ourselves and our mission and goals. Mind you, lot of it is work in progress and there are a lot of moving parts to the whole plan as it is unfolding. So whatever is mentioned here in earnest is what we see as our minimal goals and anything on top of that we can add will be even more exceptional and differentiating.
Our name: BlockPro (or BlockPro.One)
First of all, we chose BlockPro.One as our website name as we wanted to be your one (and only ?) trustworthy EOS Block Producer. Also, we thought the .One extension is kinda classy to make us strive to achieve that level of excellence!
Our website: http://blockpro.one
Where are we located?
We are located in 3 different continents and 5 different locations at this time. We are spread across Asia, Europe and North America. We intend to be a fully decentralized team as far as our location is concerned - including people, resources and the infrastructure. The world being so connected by the web, it is hard to say where you want to be located. We will probably be incorporated in one of those islands which will give us better freedom of operation and more time to operate on building our products and services.
Expected location of Servers:
To be spread across at least 2 different continents and ideally 3 different locations.
Type of Servers:
We will be using resources at a Data Center in India/Singapore, a co-location facility in US west coast and a cloud service provider as an additional option for dynamic load sharing for peak loads handling.
Current Employees:
We will be fully staffed with at least 10 employees - 2 DevOps, 1 Community Manager, 2 Governance and Marketing personnel, 3 Developers, 1 Tech support/Customer Support, 1 Finance Manager and 1 HR Manager for planning human capital growth and managing day to day operations. Our website at blockpro.one will have the most updated list of key employees. We will only be sharing names of some key executives names on the website or elsewhere and not each and every employee.
You may find the relevant professional background information of our executive team on the website.
Technical Specifications and Infrastructure Costs:
Our basic startup configuration will be what is to be dictated by Dawn 3.0 requirements and we plan to up that capacity by two times as a buffer at launch time. Our estimated costs to operate would obviously include - infrastructure set up costs, manpower and maintenance operations. We have roughly estimated this to be around 500K to 1M USD and have arrangements in place to secure the funding and deploy the hardware and software teams in place by launch time. Our initial infrastructure development plan covers setting up three nodes in three different continents for fail over support and a high speed back bone network to connect them.
Scaling Plan after June 3, 2018:
We plan to scale with the growth of EOS ecosystem and DApps requirements. We would rather plan to be proactive than reactive to the upcoming needs. That being the case, we will base much of our decisions regarding scaling plans on market research, consultation with other players and DApp producers in the EOS space. Our expectation is that within six months of launch, the infrastructure of supporting storage, memory, computing and network needs, along with the operations support would require an additional 2M USD. We have already aligned with investors who will support our investment needs to conveniently scale our operations.
Community benefit projects:
We are still debating the projects we should launch off with. Our present thinking is to support a couple of social service projects in developing countries to serve the poor and needy much like the UN project with Ethereum for refugee support. We intend to interface with members and participants of community based chains like Bancor to bring community based financial inclusion and support for our users.
Our telegram contact name is BlockPro / BlockProOne and community testnet node name - BlockPro.
We are as excited about the launch of EOS as you all are and waiting for June 3rd to be operational and gain your trust and grow the EOS ecosystem collectively with all our block producing partners.
Cheers!