EOS CSX: Announcing Our Block Producer Candidacy

The Six Check Mark Criteria (by EOS GO)

1. Public website and social media accounts.
   
   
   
   
   Website: https://www.csx.io/ Steemit: @csx-eos Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/Had_iBJnNccT1hjdlV3edw Twitter: https://twitter.com/CSXcorp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CSXCorp/

2. Links to the following ID information:
   a) Official block producer candidate name.
   EOS CSX
   b) Location of company headquarters.
   CSX Corp.
   1712 Pioneer Ave Ste 1792, Cheyenne, WY 82001

c) Expected location of servers.
Tesnet: Germany
2nd Node: Atlanta, GA, USA

d) Type of servers.
Bare metal

e) Current employee list and pictures. -and-
f) Relevant background qualifications of staff.

Our team consist of long time cryptocurrency geeks, programmers, development operations specialist, business intelligence gurus, investors, and traders:

Trenton Bullock, COO
EOS-CSX's technical director.
Manages the technical operations.

Trenton is an experienced IT Solutions Architect, Business Intelligence Developer, Project Manager, and Process Engineer with approximately 20 years of experience implementing business intelligence (BI) reporting systems, data warehouses, enterprise applications, and business systems.

Jeffery Raines, CTO
Lead infrastructure engineer.
Building and managing the BP infrastructure.
Jeffery brings twenty plus years in telecommunications and information technology in Project Management, Consulting and Network Engineering, including Big 5 companies focused on infrastructure build out across multiple verticals including: telecommunications, banking, Capital Projects, Federal government and Health Care industries.

Chris Blades
Full-stack developer.
Leads the development of the community's dApp portfolio

Chris is a full-stack software developer who has built enterprise-scale and critical software.

Duane Phillippi, CEO
EOS-CSX's managing director.
Leads the collective vision.

Duane has founded and managed cooperative ventures in the hemp industry for the past 20 years. His interest in blockchains started with mining BTC in 2011 on deepbit and BTC Guild pools. Since then he has been an early backer of many blockchain protocols and companies.

Michael Pair, CMO
Head of Community Development
Manages the community education and marketing.

Michael has been an active blockchain enthusiast who have invested in Protoshares, Bitshares, and Steemit, in addition to other projects. He taken a venture capitalist approach to investing even before the recent ICO phenomenon. He has been a major evangelist in recruiting a multitude of people to the blockchain ecosystem.

Matthew Binnie, CIO
Technical Analyst
Matthew has been managing network infrastructure for the last twenty years.

Steven Whaley
Compliance and regulatory reporting.

Steven has led teams which created regulatory reporting solutions for leading US Banks. He has consulted with financial institutions in UK, US, South Africa, and Australia.

Russel Barner
Business Intelligence.
Russel is a leader, innovator and an analytical problem solver focused on execution with experience in corporate treasury, product management, business intelligence and data warehousing. I have engineering experience in the aerospace industry serving roles in business development, aircraft avionics integrations, and field support.

George Marchenko
Business Management
George specializes in project management and business analysis for IT software development. He has over 15 years in business strategy.

(3) Estimate of technical specifications and total expenditure for resources.
FEATURES
Our team has a combined 60+ years experience in managing Enterprise Infrastructure including servers, networks, voice and video communications, etc.
Our system’s operational features consist of:
· Infrastructure
· Reliability
· Monitoring
· Scalability
· Fault Tolerance
· Security
· Deliverables

INFRASTRUCTURE
Existing
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v5 Skylake Quad-Core (8 threads)
RAM: 64 GB DDR4 ECC RAM (Server-grade RAM)
Storage: 2 x 512 GB NVMe SSD PCIe Gen3 x4 RAID 1
Network: 1 Gbits/s Guaranteed bandwidth
** We use dedicated servers. Resources are not shared. **

RELIABILITY
Redundancy in all areas to prevent missed blocks due to:
· CPU failure
· RAM failure
· Network Failure
· Drive Failure
· Power Failure

MONITORING
· We provide network traffic monitoring of our network in real-time remotely and on-site.
· 24x7 support

FAULT TOLERANCE
· Network fault-tolerance will be handled between two different ISPs
· Redundant CPU, RAM, and storage. We have zero tolerance for failing hardware. Defective parts will be replaced without downtime.

SECURITY
· Network
o Firewall will prevent and mitigate DDOS and Botnet attacks.
· System and Application
o System will detect unauthorized login attempts

DELIVERABLES
Initially we will provide two services to the EOS Blockchain network.
· EOS Block Producer Node
· EOS Seed Node

(4) Estimated scaling plan for hardware after June 3, 2018
SCALABILITY
Based on the increased resource utilization requirements, we plan to flexibly scale up compute, storage, and memory. Below you will find the scale-up capabilities we have.
CPU: 20 x IBM Core-Processor (10 cores each = 200 cores)
RAM: 32 TB RAIM-protected memory (Redundant Array of Independent Memory)
Storage: SSD 6 Gbps Fiber-Optic SAN for unlimited space
Network: 2 x 25 Gbps

(5) Community benefit project outline.
PRE-LAUNCH
EOS Token holder online education through Steemit and at meetups.
Attend meetups in Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, GA; Regina, SK
Attend, support and participate at the Tulip Conference

POST LAUNCH
Continued Community education through social media and meetups.
Development of open source tools to interact with the community, the EOS infrastructure, and the arbitrators, with the aim to:
· make it easier for developers to create on EOS, and
· make it easier for the community to use EOS.
Develop dApps on EOS according to feedback from the community.

(6) Listing of Telegram and node names for community testnet participation.
Testnet: EOS Jungle
Node Name: CSX.IO
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/Had_iA_mF3vKoPvj-YaRpQ

(7) Block Producer Candidate Roadmap on values, community project timeline, finances, transparency, or any other topic the candidate deems important. Please show the direction and future of your candidacy for the community.

Values:
As a long-time miner in the cryptocurrency, we were initially intrigued by the prospect of earnings an income by running software on a machine. However, over the years we have to learn more about the value and importance that miners provide to the network and its function. As a Block Producer for EOS, we know that our infrastructure undergirds and provides the basis on which decentralization can provide to the varied applications that run on top of it. We are a part of a larger cadre of players that seek to empower and unleash capabilities that had been previously reserved for only the powerful and privileged.
As a Block Producer we provide freedom to the users of the system, offering an alternative to the ‘Old Guard’. Providing peer to peer transactions without intermediaries is in itself a form of freedom. Freedom provides options, options can be the beginning of hope, and the pursuit of hope can lead to happiness. As an EOS Block Producer, this is what we intend to provide to the users, applications, and the network.

Finances:
What is our financial position as an EOS Block Producer? What does this mean? For us, it means operating our organization with a level of integrity that benefit the network and simultaneously allows to run a profitable operation. Profits will be split between savings and community development.

Transparency:
Transparency is closed tied to finances. If we do the right thing with our finances, we have one less thing to hide. We aim to let users of the system know how we are conducting our business. We have a long history of working with the Protoshares, Bitshares, Steem and now EOS ecosystems. From the beginning when Dan presented his idea at small cryptocurrency conference in October 2013, a few our founders were there. From the launch of Protoshares and the first few hours of POW mining, to Bitshares XT to the year long crowdfund of Angelshares, to the difficulty of Follow My Vote, and the unveiling of Graphene, we have been here. So, we aim to offer an above-board approach to working in the best interest of the community. Our goal is to get it right and we will, if we don’t hide our intentions and communicate along the way.

(8) Position on Dividends (The sharing of Block Producer inflation rewards with unaffiliated voters, AKA "vote buying.") Please describe the block producer candidate's stance on sharing inflation rewards and/or paying dividends to EOS token holders.
(a) Will the organization offer payment to EOS token voters for any reason, including BP elections AND worker proposals?

Our BP rewards will create a positive feedback loop where BP rewards are reinvested back into the community. We will invest our dividends towards education to grow the EOS ecosystem.
EOS CSX pledges to adhere to the EOS Constitution and will NOT conduct any vote-buying activities.
EOS CSX does NOT support or actively participate in such practices. We remain completely impartial and will not offer payments (like dividends or tokens payments) in return for voting from EOS token holders. We will not pay BP Elections and Worker Proposals for votes.

(b) Does the organization have a written policy of no-payment for votes? If so, please provide a link.
Our pledge is online at:
https://steemit.com/eos-csx/@csx-eos/eos-csx-s-position-on-dividends