WELCOME to 'EOS the World'
EOS the World, LLC (Headquartered in Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Structure
We are a decentralized team of computer science, business, marketing, and philanthropic personnel vitally interested in the EOS platform. We are an entirely self-funded team, (and will remain so permanently), with no outside conflicts of interest to report whatsoever.
Proudly Headquartered in Puerto Rico
Integrity. Dependability. Benevolence.
And, Helping Puerto Rico Recover from the Unbelievable Devastation of Hurricane Maria!
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EOS the World, LLC- Our Online Presence
Website: https://www.eostheworld.co/ (temporary)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EOStheWorld
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/133403804160918
EOS_Go: https://bp.eosgo.io/listing/eos-the-world/
EOS_Go Meetup: https://bp.eosgo.io/listing/introduction-to-the-blockchain-101-meet-up-6-feat-eos/
Address where we are producing blocks on the testnet under the generic name "eosio": 216.188.224.131:8888/v1/chain/get_info
Our Team
J.T. Buice
Director of Information Technology
In addition to being the Director of Information Technologies for EOS the World, J. T. Buice is the Co-Founder and Director at Kainos Technologies. J.T. comes with more than 16 years’ experience and broad competencies in all areas of IT infrastructure and security systems including LAN and WAN networking, server architecture, large scale storage, and telecommunications. Prior to Kainos, Buice was the Manager of IT Operations at Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to deliver always-on IT that enabled SpaceX to serve commercial and government entities in furthering the exploration of space. Buice’s team was responsible for the rocket testing and development groups and while there grew the infrastructure to support hundreds of employees, miles of fiber optic network, hundreds of terabytes of data and dozens of servers directly interfacing with flight hardware. He also previously worked as an IT Manager for BKD, one of the largest accounting firms in the nation and a start-up called K2Share where he designed, implemented and managed IT infrastructure that served the world by hosting web applications for the Department of Homeland Security in the years following 9-11.
Bobby Singh
Director of Blockchain Coding
Director of dApp Developer Interface
Bobby Singh is an entrepreneur and founder of blockchain-based startups-Luxury Ledger and Refuge Network. In particular, LuxuryLedger.io is a fascinating dApp project being built on the EOS blockchain, with to goal of preventing the distribution and sale of counterfeit luxury items through the immutable ledger. This project has a very bright future. He has deep knowledge in distributed systems development, cyber security, compliance regulations, data privacy and crypto-economics. He has previously consulted for Barclays, UBS, Societe Generale and Boston Consulting Group. He believes strongly in EOS and Dan Larimer's mission in "finding free market solutions to securing our life, liberty and property" as a passionate and ambitious pursuit.
Roger Post
Director of Online Security
Roger, a resident of Puerto Rico for the last 2+ years, is, in addition to managing online security for EOS the World, the Managing Director of Lodestone, LLC a Puerto Rico-based international information technology guidelines corporation. A long-time participant in the cryptocurrency community, serial entrepreneur and technologist, Roger has lived and breathed information technology for over 25 years.
After beginning his career in academic computing with the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture, at a time when the Internet was just emerging as a commercial tool, Roger performed pioneering work in online payments risk management. Honing his skills over the next couple decades, Roger continued to lead large scale initiatives for private and publicly traded companies in banking, financial services, biotech, and transportation sectors. Roger is an expert in digital security, privacy, cloud computing, and identity & access management. Since 2016, he is a full-time resident of Puerto Rico, from which he operates Lodestone, LLC, a highly successful global IT advisory, delivery, and staffing company.
Jennifer Morrow
Online Security and dApp Developer Outreach Program Security Consultant
Jennifer, a resident of Puerto Rico for the last 2+ years, is, in addition to consulting in online security for EOS the World and our dApp Developer Outreach Program, is a Director of Lodestone, LLC a Puerto Rico-based international information technology guidelines corporation.
With a background in finance and a 20-year career as an IT professional executing high risk, strategic projects in banking and financial services, transportation, and government sectors, Jennifer has extensive experience in the security space for financial transactions, payment processing, and data encryption for classified systems. Jennifer has delivered zero outage software implementations, international hardware deployments, automation projects, and multiple global data center projects, all for Fortune 50 entities. Jennifer is a proven leader in portfolio/project management, process improvement, relationship building, strategic visioning and planning, budget management, development and organizational change management. Jennifer is a full-time resident of Puerto Rico, where she is active in the economic development and digital transformation of the island.
Brett Jeffery, M.D.
Founder
Prior to founding EOS the World, Dr. Brett was a specialist physician (M.D. University of Texas Health Science Center), treating over 140,000 patients in a 30 year career with impecible integrity, dedication, and a stellar record, additionally serving as a sought-after consultant and expert witness over the last 10 years, all while not missing a single day of work in 30 years. While doing so, he has additionally built 2 multi-million dollar real estate companies, and prior to his medical career, was a professional musician, performing Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos before packed houses to standing ovations, as well as being the opening act for the late, great Ray Charles.
He began his love affair with the blockchain in 2013, and had an life-changing epiphany in mid-2017, listening to the "EOS Consensus Presentation" by Dan Larimer in May, 2017, knowing that this was the "the one", (the crypto for which many of us have been searching). Now, a resident of Puerto Rico, the new World's Capital of Cryptocurrency, he has been actively promoting EOS ever since to anyone who will listen!
Willard E. Brown, III
Director of Philanthropy
Willard E. Brown, III has had a large, sought-after impact on the philanthropic world for over 40 years. A graduate of the Univeristy of Texas at Austin with a BBA in 1973, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, in 1976, Willard has served on the boards of many charible organizations, overseeing millions of dollars of charitable giving, including being on the Board of the Bolton Foundation, a private charitable trust, the Board of Directors of the Texas Governor's Mansion during it's multimillion dollar renovation, the Board of Directors of the Texas State Aquarium, and multiple other boards of schools, financial institutions, and museums, such as the Dallas Museum of Art. Willard will advice on the charitable giving aspects of the EOS the World Outreach Programs.
Raul Vidal, Esq.
Legal Counsel and Governmental Regulatory Lobbying
Former Assistant Secretary for International Affairs for the Department of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico, Raul was also the lead promoter of the Island’s incentives around the world and the Director for Puerto Rico’s New York Office. As such, he attracted over $700 million in foreign direct investments to the Island.
A very strong supporter of the blockchain revolution in Puerto Rico, and a sponsor or the recent #BlockchainUnbound, #CoinAgenda, and #RestartWeek conferences on the island, several of Raul’s other successful projects include Puerto Rico’s first commercial bank in 30 years, two corporate headquarters, a major hotel and tourism investment, and the Island’s first A rated re-insurer. Recent accomplishments include the processing of high net-worth individuals under Acts 20 and 22, the very same incentives he helped develop in 2012 under Governor Luis Fortuno’s administration.
In recognition for his work on behalf of Puerto Rico’s economic development, Raul was named by the World Economic Forum as a founding Global Shaper for the San Juan Hub, and was recently invited as the first Puerto Rican to participate in the WEF’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland to speak on the role of cities as centers for economic development, and to take part in the Prime Minister of Australia’s G-20 2014 Presidency platform team.
Roberto Corretjer, Esq.
Legal Counsel and dApp Developer Legal Outreach Team
Corporate attorney, businessman, and social entrepreneur, Roberto brings his extensive corporate and real-estate experience to Omnia Economic Solutions’ services.
In tune with Puerto Rico’s investment trends, Roberto has served as a leading corporate and real-estate attorney in Puerto Rico – negotiating real-estate settlements for some of the largest construction companies and real-estate developers in the region. He has also represented developers and investors in the acquisition and disposition of commercial and residential real-estate assets, including equity, leasehold, and debt.
Roberto’s unique access to investment opportunities in Latin America provides our clients with some of the necessary access and insight to make a sound venture.
Roberto holds a Masters Degree from Northwestern University and is licensed in Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.
William Torres Torres, C.P.A.
Financial Management and dApp Developer Outreach Team
CPA William Torres Torres has been a well-respected CPA in Puerto Rico for over 35 years, Partner at Torres CPA Group, TCG., William is active in the explosive blockchain growth in Puerto Rico, having been an active participant and sponsor or the recent #BlockchainUnbound #RestartWeek conferences in Puerto Rico in March 2018. William will maintain transparency in all things about the activities of EOS the World, LLC; he will also assist in providing subsidized accounting, payroll and tax compliance services to promising EOS dApp developers.
Scott Daniel
Director of Community Outreach
Scott, a native of Australian, currently residing in Playa del Carmen, Mexico is a successful serial entrepreneur who currently hosts the fabulously successful Facebook group "Crypto Investing" with over 135,000 followers, and the rapidly growing blockchain investment analysis subscription service Cryptogasmic.com, which has had a remarkable tract record of analyzing and predicting trends in the rapidly evolving cryptosphere.
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Hardware and Storage
Our servers are brand new, state of the art computers with the capacity to upgrade to 3 TB of RAM each, on a moments notice. They include 2.5""SSD hard drives, 4 Xeon E7-8880- 2.2 GHz- 88 cores- 176 processing threads. They will not be used for any other purpose than EOS block production. We will connect them to the internet with dedicated, redundant fiber optic line at 1 GBPS upgradeable to a maximum (currently) of 10 GBPS on a moments notice. Hardware will include Arista 10 GB SFP+ switch with 24 SFP ports and Layer 3 BGP peering to redundant ISP's. This will include enhanced Layer 3 Routing license from Arista Switches, redundant active/active unified threat management firewall with round-robin load balancing 10GbE capable with 19 GBPS firewall throughput. Internet hosting will be IPv4 /24 address block (with 254 usable addresses).
Storage
We will never use legacy internet corporate storage. We will begin with 44 x 8 TB SAS Drive Arrays- 12 Gb/s and increase once storage reached 50% of capacity. We will always maintain a minimum of 50% available free storage, no matter how fast the network grows, how much storage is required, and no matter the expense involved.
Because of the current climate and prevailing attitudes of legacy internets companies (Facebook, Twitter, Google and other banning ICO advertizing), banks refusing to wire money to blockchain exchanges, and other indicators that those currently in control of the internet, government, and thus, the world's economies might not always be, "EOS friendly"etc., we at EOS the World feel STRONGLY that storage of vital EOS data should NEVER (even temporarily) be placed in the legacy internet corporation cloud storage facilities (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Apple iCloud, etc). It is an avoidable potential point of failure.
Therefore, EOS the World has taken the substantial undertaking to provide (for starters) 1 PB of bare metal in-house storage for each of its data center servers, and will continue to provide only in-house, bare metal storage as the network grows, no matter how rapidly, how large, or whatever the expense (which is anticipated could become sizable) as time passes and the network grows. Whenever our storage units become 50% full, we will immediately double the amount of storage, or enough to provide 75% available storage on all primary and back-up locations.
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Server Locations
While we are headquartered in Puerto Rico, we are not currently able to locate our servers here because of the unstable nature of the power grid on the island. Since we have the freedom to locate our servers anywhere, we have chosen some of the best locations available anywhere. All server locations have absolute 100% complete redundencies in all areas, including multiple, dedicated fiber optic line internet, up to 10GBPS, complete electricity redundancy with up to 4 MW of power, plus complete cooling, generator, and IT support redundancies. There is not a single indentified single-point of failure in our hardware, nor nor data center locations, and, all equipment is brand new state-of-the-art equipment, with servers with up to 3 TB of RAM, and 1 PB of local (not cloud) bare metal storage per server (to begin). These high-value servers are protected by the best online security, and 3-factor authentication physical security, including biometric palm print identity verification.
Our initial main server will be located at one of the finest tier 3 data centers in the world, the Zayo zColo Data Center on the vital I-35 corridor, midway between Dallas and Austin, Texas (two huge business and techology hubs), in Waco, Texas, less than a mile off I-35 and 3 miles from the enormous, world-class, Baylor University Research and Innovation Collaborative technology incubator.
Server Location #1: 700 Austin Ave., Waco, TX- one of the world's most advanced data centers. Zayo’s Waco, Texas zColo Data Center is the only Tier III data center centrally located between Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Houston. Located in the heart of Waco, the facility is a re-purposed Cold War era nuclear fallout shelter that provides an elite level of physical security that is rare in the commercial data center market. This prime location falls within a 150 mile radius of Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio- enabling multiple paths for data replication in both production and disaster recovery business models. The facility features the largest concentration of enterprise IT accessible fiber for 80 miles in any direction. Encompassing 100% of the metro fiber operators and 60% of all transiting fiber providers along the I-35 corridor, our Waco Data Center is the leading network access point for the region. Network latency readings have been recorded at less than 1.5 milliseconds from both Dallas and Houston POPs.
This facility is optimally located in close proximity of multiple highway routes to enable accessibility in the event of hurricane, national airway interruption, or other disaster. It is located on a separate part of the power grid from other major Texas metroplexes, providing an operational advantage during rolling blackouts and power generation system failures. It features a true 2N power standard with dual redundant power paths from generator to cabinet facility and incorporates dual transformer commercial power feeds. The facility’s hardened security environment features a layered security protocol that includes biometric authentication, access key cards, and DVR camera surveillance. These security measures complement a Network Operations Center staffed by experienced IT professionals providing vigilant monitoring and remote hands support 24x7x365.
Our second server will be temporarily located at the Zainos Technology Headquarters, allowing for manual switching to back up, until the EOS software permits mult-node configuration.
When elected, our second, third, and fourth locations will also be Tier 3 data centers, with latencies to the primary server as low as 1.6 milliseconds.
Server Location #2: 6606 Lyndon B Johnson Fwy/Fl-1/Ste-125/Rm-Data Center Dallas, TX 75240
Optimally located in North Dallas, Zayo’s Data Center at 6606 LBJ is a state-of-the art Tier III facility designed to accommodate demanding enterprise hosting requirements. Efficient design and contemporary infrastructure coupled with nationally competitive power rates afford our tenants scalable, resilient, and cost-effective colocation solutions. This facility is strategically located to provide optimal access to the DFW fiber network, one of the best and broadest in the world. Fed from dual power substations, one in a hospital district, our facility boasts a proven history of continuous conditioned power connectivity that is protected by backup UPS systems and onsite diesel generators. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive suite of integrated cloud infrastructure solutions to complement customer controlled IT assets and provide our clients with the most economical and operationally efficient solutions.
Additionally, if elected, we will immediately commence equiping servers #3 and #4 in Zayo tier 3 data centers in other countries besides the United States, in completely different legal jurisdictions. We will establish EOS the World servers in Paris, France, and London, England.
Server #3 Location: 19/21 Rue Poissonniere, Paris, France, 75002
The Paris facility is the premier Tier III+ data center in France. It is located in the heart of the Silicon Sentier, one of the centers of the French digital economy. Completely remodeled in 2013, the facility features high-efficiency, eco-friendly hosting, and technical rooms that total 1,250 square meters, featuring 600 kW of redundant electricity, 10 GBPS double optical dedicated fiber intake internet, complete physical plant security, and boasts 99.999% uptime.
Server #4: London, England.
The location of the London Zayo tier 3 zColo facility will be announced as soon as plans are complete.
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Storage
We will never use legacy internet corporate storage. We will begin with 44 x 8 TB SAS Drive Arrays- 12 Gb/s and increase once storage reaches 50% of capacity. We will always maintain a minimum of 50% available free storage, no matter how fast the network grows, how much storage is required, and no matter the expense involved.
Because of the current climate and prevailing attitudes of legacy internets companies (Facebook, Twitter, Google and other banning ICO advertizing), banks refusing to wire money to blockchain exchanges, and other indicators that those currently in control of the internet, government, and thus, the world's economies might not always be, "EOS friendly" etc., we at EOS the World feel STRONGLY that storage of vital EOS data should NEVER (even temporarily) be placed in the legacy internet corporation cloud storage facilities (such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Apple iCloud, etc). It is a imminently avoidable point of potential failure.
Therefore, EOS the World has taken the substantial undertaking to provide (for starters) 1 PB of bare metal in-house storage for each of its data center servers, and will continue to provide only in-house, bare metal storage as the network grows, no matter how rapidly, how large, or whatever the expense (which is anticipated could become sizable) as time passes and the network grows. Whenever our storage units become 50% full, we will immediately double the amount of storage, or enough to provide 75% available storage on all primary and back-up locations.
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Scalability
Our servers will begin with 768 GB of RAM, with the capacity to upgrade to 3 TB of RAM each, on a moments notice.
Our bare metal storage will begin with 1 PB of bare metal in-house storage for each of its data center servers, and will continue to provide only in-house, bare metal storage as the network grows, no matter how rapidly, how large, or whatever the expense (which is anticipated could become sizable) as time passes and the network grows. Whenever our storage units become 50% full, we will immediately double the amount of storage, or enough to provide 75% available storage on all primary and back-up locations.
Once elected, and once the software allows multiple parallel nodes, we will add two additional data centers in countries other than the United States. This will, we feel, help us us manage and regulatory changes coming from any one particular country.
Our very long-term scaling plan (5 years) is to own 4 completely independent data centers that have all the Tier 3 features and redundancies of the zColo centers where we currently lease space. These data centers with feature solar power, be in 3 different countries, and be beholden to no one but the EOS blockchain.
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Philanthropy
While the first, and, by far, most important job of a block producer is to provide a stable, rock-solid foundation upon which to grow the EOS network, including excellent personnel, hardware, security and planning for future expansion, we pledge to donate up to 75% of our net profit (after the above primary expenses and needs are met) toward philanthropic efforts. Being headquartered on the island of Puerto Rico, devastated in 2017 by two hurricanes, Irma and taking a direct hit from the Category 5 Hurricane Maria, we have a special interest in helping the citizens of Puerto Rico recovery from what has been a life-changing event. In the name of EOS, we will be donating a substantial amount of money to everyday local citizens to do the basics, like putting food on the table and a roof over their heads, all the while promoting good-will, and understanding of the new blockchain revolution, lead by EOS, and teaching them about it. Not only will this help to island recover, it will hopefully promote understanding and cooperation with the government of Puerto Rico, which is leading the way to make Puerto Rico the new "World's Capital of the Blockchain" through cooperative efforts between private enterprise and local government, with such recent successful efforts as #BlockchainUnbound, #CoinAgenda, and #RestartWeek, all of which received world-wide media coverage.
EOS the World will also commit to providing subsidized services to the aspiring EOS dApp developers who will need the same kinds of services we needed to launch our blockchain candidacy... affordable access to legal, accounting, business development planning and advice, and access to elite hardware, high speed fiber optic cable, utility redundancies, and liability insurance. We will provide these online, and through a growing network of "EOS Centers" funded through our philanthropic efforts, and overseen by EOS the World team member, Willard E. Brown, III, a highly-regarded philanthropist for over 40 years.
A member of our legal team, Raul Vidal, Esq. who is licensed to practice law in the US and Puerto Rico, and is fluently bi-lingual, has an extensive background as a lobbyist, and will personally spearhead lobbying efforts on an as needed basis with Western Hemispheric countries regarding blockchain acceptance, and will coordinate with legal teams elsewhere to address potential governmental/blockchain misunderstandings as they may arise.
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Business Plan:
Expenditures and Budget
As of June 3, 2018, total expenditures visa vie' the blockchain candidacy of EOS the World, LLC will exceed $500,000, with expenses likely to easily double as we scale, adding additional bare metal storage, and additional server locations and hardware in Europe. Absent team member salaries and server costs, we estimate monthly expenses for redundant fiber optic internet, and data center costs to be $25,000/month.
Regarding Block Producer reimbursement, we favor a graduated reimbursement based on token price, as we put forth in a special Telegram chat room regarding BP reimbursement. The higher the token price, the lower the percentage of inflation dedicated to funding the block producers. We believe that, while there may need to be a ceiling on block producer reimbursement should the token price rise to triple digits (over $100 USD), there also needs to be a floor on block producer reimbursement should the token price plunge into the low single digits. Based on the work we did, along with several BP candidates, we've estimated that a reasonable minimal yearly expense of providing all the services required of a legitimate block producer would be at a minimum $1.2 million USD. Reimbursement through inflation less than that puts the block producers in financial jeopardy, and, as such, places the entire EOS network at risk.
All hardware financing expenses, staff salaries, travel, advertizing, and community outreach expenses would be in addition to these basic, mandatory, recurring expenses. These expenses are layed out in detail in the Telegram BP cost analysis published by another team, to which we contributed meaningfully.
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Internet Security
Our plan for internet security is to begin with Arista 7150s-24 port Layer 3 switches for 10G switching and BGP peering with our providers from our own /24 network block. Our firewall will be provided by Sophos. Both devices have the ability to identify and blackhole DoS and DDoS traffic whether it be ICMP Floods, SYN/TCP Floods or UDP floods at over 10 Gb/s. Additionally, while not automatic, the providers will also assist in blocking DoS traffic we identify.
While we are currently under contract for redundant fiber optic internet at 1Gb/s links, once elected and we increase the sevice up to 10 Gb/s links, the DoS attack will have to exceed 20 Gb/s before we will not able to respond to legitimate EOS requests to our nodes. Typically, when DOS attackers realize they cannot fill the pipeline, they give up in less than a day and concentrate elsewhere.
Cloudfare is another option currently under consideration. This is a service that can be added while online, if needed. Since we will have SNMP monitoring on all interfaces tracking bandwidth utilization, an attack can reasonably be anticipated.
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Statement Regarding Dividends
We, at EOS the World, LLC, are a completely autonomous, self-funded, decentralized group of professionals who have all had very successful careers in our different chosen fields, whether it be computer science, IT security, computer programming, accounting, philanthropic, legal, entrepreneurial, or medical careers. We have all worked extremely diligently in our careers, with laser-like focus, and had extremely honorable, upstanding careers. We pledge to never doing anything that could be interpreted as besmirching or sullying the EOSIO brand, nor our own reputations, such as "buying votes", giving dividends, or any other form of renumeration to those who have voted for our BP candidacy, or any other form of corruption or fraud, and are willing to put up a performance bond as collateral should we ever be found to have violated this pledge.
We do not support other block producers who might choose to participate in this kind of activity, and take something of a less than favorable view of block producer candidates who air-drop free tokens to EOS stakeholders, when these free tokens might be of value only if those BP candidates are elected by those who received the free tokens. This could easily be construed as an attempt to influence voting for personal financial gain of the voter, rather than voting for the candidates who might best grow and support the EOS blockchain.
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EOS the World Ambassadors
EOS the World has a growing team of enthusiastic young volunteers representing nations all over the globe who stand ready to support our philanthropic efforts in their home countries. They will assist our efforts on the ground with community education, organizing meet-ups, and facilitating our subsidized support for promising dApp developers. We hope to have at least one excellent ambassador in as many countries as we can, more in larger, more developed, or rapidly progressing countries. These ambassadors will be coordinating education to the community, nurturing dApp developers, and managing brick and mortar EOS Data Centers.