Introduction

My name is Marc, you have probably seen me in the ArkEcosystem Discord, on GitHub or on Reddit. I have been an Arky since November 2017 (HODLing) and became an active part of this community in April 2018. I like to contribute to Ark where I can and you might have seen some of the things I have done:

• Ark development bounty #1 place in July 2018
• Darknet node 'Cryptology' during the tests of V1/V2 hybrid network
• Developer of the ArkTippr Reddit Ark tipbot
• Developer of the cryptology_tbw True Block Weight payout script
• Member of the Ark Community Fund board 2019

Like many Arkies I come from the Netherlands, but own a small private company called Cryptology ltd, based in Hong Kong (which is why my delegate is named 'cryptology').

My Skills

I have graduated my B.Sc Telematics Engineering and delivered my thesis on 'Problem & Performance management for international frame-relay networks' in 1997. Until late 2003 I have served several roles in data communication infrastructure environments, among them designing a nationwide data communication infrastructure for a GSM provider, CTO of a managed hosting company, VP of interconnections for a European ADSL network provider. Since 2003 I have been permanently travelling the world while focusing on the development of Internet projects (developing web applications such as an Online dating site, E-commerce sites, Online magazines and recently dApps and projects such as ArkTippr.

Tl:dr: I know my way around servers, data communication and software development.

My Proposal

Ark is building an ecosystem where anybody can simply create and run a new blockchain... without needing to know anything. To make Ark really accessible to anybody they should also not have to think about the setup and management of their server infrastructure. I believe I can make a difference here with your help:

• I want to experiment with several node server setups to discover weaknesses and strenghts and come up with tested setups that everybody can copy. This is a continuous process.

• I will provide a stable and high-uptime node infrastructure to Ark Mainnet and Ark Devnet: multiple nodes, spread across different datacenters.

• I will build tools that will benefit the Ark Ecosystem, like the addition of a Twitter bot, OTC trading and exchange options to ArkTippr.

Conclusion

Cryptology delegate will contribute to a better Ark infrastructure, help the setup of Ark sidechains in a way that has not been done yet and will provide great applications like ArkTippr to our ecosystem. All I need is your confidence to make this happen: vote cryptology.