Introduction
I’m Simon, 34 years old, from Switzerland. I studied Computer Science and currently I’m working as a C++ coder. I have more than 10 years of experience in linux, servers, networks, security. I also have experience with Web development, Android development, JAVA, and other scripting/programming languages like Python, Bash, etc… I live fulltime in the Linux world. 
I’m interested in everything that is related to future and technology, like Robots, Drones, Autonomous cars and AI in general, decentralized networks, 3D printing (yes, I own a 3d printer… ), and of course crypto currency/blockchain.
I’m in the crypto business for several years now and knew from the beginning that it will become a big thing. At that time just nobody believed me 
Lisk is one of the Projects I see a realistic future for. It is the next step of the crypto evolution and I want to be part of it. I will run a delegate node on the Lisk network to support it, to be part of it and to push it forward!
Delegate Name: cc001
Delegate Address: 6787154358850114730L
Check out my separate website with News, Live data of my nodes, and my current projects and donations!
www.liskdelegate.io
Find my Transparency Reports here: https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1278
Server Specifications
I’m with Lisk since the very beginning, I think I even had one of the first delegate nodes running on the first Lisk network. Since then I developed a quite sophisticated server management and monitoring environment which guarantees an extremely high availability, productivity and security.
I’m running 3 nodes on the mainnet (one master and two backups) and also 3 nodes on the testnet (All nodes are hosted on different hosters at different locations). Additionally, I have a separate management node that does all the monitoring and management of my setup.
You can check the status of all my nodes and the Lisk networks on my delegate site: http://www.liskdelegate.io
So, my setup looks like this:
Mainnet:
- Master: Dedicated Server 8 Cores x 3.4GHz , 16 GB RAM and 500GB of fast SSD, 1Gbps and DDoS protected (mitigation)
- Backup: 4 Cores x 3.1GHz, 4 GB RAM and FasterThanSSD storage.
- Backup2: 2 Cores x 2.6GHz, 2 GB RAM and SSD storage.
Testnet:
- Master: 3 Cores x 2.4GHz , 4GB RAM, SSD storage
- Backup: 2 Cores x 2GHz , 2GB RAM, SSD storage
- Backup2: 1 Core x 2GHz, 1GB RAM, SSD storage
Current Contributions or Planned Contributions to the Lisk Ecosystem
I’m with Lisk since the very beginning and helping wherever I can. I even got rewarded for that by the Lisk Team, together with other great community members: https://blog.lisk.io/for-the-lisk-community-thank-you-ee9870ba5bab
Here is some of what I’ve done for Lisk so far (more will follow )
Donations I’ve made so far
- Lisk Community Fund – 522 LSK – 14032350084613070952 – I’ve promised to donate the 2 x 25 LSK Prize for writing this proposal
- Isabella – 250 LSK – 17416121421785629867
- Gr33ndrag0n – 250 LSK – 827539547299567143
- 4miners.net (Mq) – 200 LSK – 1061386387920664924
- http://desktop.lisk-wallet.com/ – 184.1 LSK – 7158721831453074651, 7134355903750328794
- MrV – 150 LSK – 14669893063146180911
Nodes:
The most important job of a Lisk Delegate is to secure the network. Therefore it is crucial to have the forging nodes ALWAYS up an running. I have a very sophisticated setup. I monitor and manage my nodes 24/7 from everywhere. I get alert notifications whenever something is wrong, even if my scripts handle most of the incidents automatically.
Testnet and Mainnet shows it: I have one of the best productivity since the beginning.
Currently I am “Best Forger” and “Best Productivity” on Mainnet and also”Best Productivity” on Testnet!
Even in very hard times, with pretty bad test versions, I kept my nodes running as long as possible. I got up in the night to restart forging, and managed them from anywhere with my smartphone.
Tutorials:
I wrote two tutorials:
- Secure basic setup of a delegate server (https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=408)
- How to set up ‘lisk-rake’ to deploy, manage and monitor your delegate node(s) (It is outdated, https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=304)
Scripts:
- Lisk-autoVote
It’s a python script to simplify the voting in Lisk. You can add all the delegate names you want to vote for to a text file and run the script: https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=554#p6626 / https://github.com/simonmorgenthaler/Lisk-autoVote - Lisk-heightChecker
That’s an additional script to monitor the blockheights and versions of nodes in the network.
https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=1214 / https://github.com/simonmorgenthaler/Lisk-heightChecker - Lisk-fundsDistributor
That’s a script that allow the automatic distribution of fundings to different accounts. It is highly configurable and customizable with a configuration file that allows different kind of distributions.
https://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=1262 / https://github.com/simonmorgenthaler/Lisk-fundsDistributor - I have additional scripts that I might publish in the near future to help other delegates. They just need some polish to be publishable
Testnet
As written above, I’m with Lisk since the beginning and helped testing every single version of Lisk. In more detail this is how I contributed to test and improve the released versions:
- Tested Alpha Versions
- Tested Release Candidates
- Wrote Scripts and used tools to (Stress-)Test the network and the nodes
- Gave Feedback to Oliver
- Wrote Github Issues
- Run all my 3 nodes all the time
I’m currently rank #1 and have the highest productivity there. https://testnet-explorer.lisk.io/addres … 578320196L
Community
I’m in lisk.chat daily, try to help with my knowledge and help new users
I also helped to organize the biweekly meetings and try to give valuable feedback to the Lisk Team.
Fundings
To push Lisk forward I will also spend a big part of my delegate income to promising Lisk projects and funds!
I already helped funding http://desktop.lisk-wallet.com/ of fixcrypt.
I’m planning to do the following with my delegate income:
- 20% Spending for interesting Lisk Projects (I’ll decide from time to time what project gets how much) Examples:
- “BattleChain” by TheRedHawk http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1168
- “SEEDCHAIN” by daoist http://forum.lisk.io/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=209
- “Lisk.Gratis” by densmirnov https://lisk.gratis/ to attract new users to Lisk
- Let me know if you have an interesting project that needs some funding/support
- 5% “Community Fund” https://blog.lisk.io/announcing-the-com … 6b6948c633
- 20% Maintaining my servers and delegate infrastructure
- 55% Longterm Lisk Savings (I will use this also for voting other contributing top delegates! Maybe I’ll pay me some wage of this, maybe 10%, but I will keep almost all of it in Lisk, because I believe it will be worth much more in the future
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Top Secret
I’m currently working on one Project that helps the complete Lisk community, and I am also working on a project for my personal delegate nodes, to increase the transparency of my nodes and my income.
Ending Statement
I’m very convinced of Lisk, and I’m supporting it with all my heart, my knowledge and a lot of my time. And I will be in it for years, I even could imagine to become a fulltime Lisk delegate in the future. The Lisk community is fantastic, and together we can push Lisk to world domination and world peace 
So, with your vote for my delegate you do basically three things:
- You do support the security and reliability of the complete Lisk network with several top-notch high reliable nodes that will be always up-to-date, secure and managed with great seriousness and know-how.
- You indirectly support the whole Lisk ecosystem, by funding a part of my delegate funds to promising other Lisk projects
- You help me to shift more of my Time towards Lisk, to contribute even more
Last but not least:
I’ll spend the 25LSK for writing this proposal, and if I win an award for it (https://blog.lisk.io/community-delegate … 2da59ff507), I’ll spend also half of this prize I win to attract new Lisk users, maybe with the official faucet, or a marketing/twitter campain or another promising project or the Community Fund (I’ll discuss it with the Lisk Team if they have a good idea/project in sight, what could help most to attract new users)
Thanks for your support, together we can change the world!
Simon
Contact Details
E-Mail: cc001.bct@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/simonmorgenthaler
lisk.chat: cc001
BitcoinTalk.org: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?actio … e;u=112638
Website: http://www.liskdelegate.io
