Ed & James

We are two long-time friends (10+ years, but who is counting?!) with a multi year interest in crypto, and more recently Radix and Defi. We both started dabbling in the crypto world in 2014, and found out about Radix in 2017 and have followed the project closely in the years since. We both participated in the ICO, and are vocal advocates for Radix within our personal networks.

We are interested in serving as a validator node-runner primarily to help the Radix network and community, and aim to successfully demonstrate that non-professional but committed members of the community can run high performing validator nodes.

We have experience of remotely running VPN servers and Bitcoin nodes on AWS and DigitalOcean instances, as well as running Tor nodes on local servers. We ran a validator node on Radix testnet for the duration of the test, learnt a lot, and look forward to applying this knowledge to our node on Olympia.

We are committing to this as a joint project to ensure greater resilience of our node. We are both well equipped to undertake any necessary maintenance or undertake mitigations in the event of any network or infrastructure failures, and ensuring we have two people with these administrator capabilities reduces the risk of a single point of failure.

If you have questions for either of us, please contact us.