We will be making a notarization based VOTE2018 bounty for NN candidates, it is after all what being a NN is all about.
Idea with testnet for NN seems very good, it allows candidates confirm their skills and learn something new about NN work, dPOW and other things. But idea with bounty for NN, if i'm understood it correctly (VOTE2018 bounty for notarizations counts in testnet, right?) - seems not so good. For example, my server declared in proposal is ready, but it will be transferred to DC in first days of April. So, now to take part pursuit for the bounty i'll need to deploy test NN in VM insfrastructure at home.
2SHossainKMD: Thx for your guides for NN testnet, i hope it will help candidates to learn the basics. Good work!
While the timing for your server is unfortunate. I encourage you to demonstrate your proficiency with a VM, there are participants in the testnet already notarizing beer and pizza coin. Connection to the testnet can be slow (one node has 500 ping). You will be at a disadvantage if you can not claim to have notarized already. Good luck, and I hope to see your node soon.
Being a notary you have one job: to notarize. It is essential to be proficient before joining the NN operators on the mainnet.
We have great need for dedicated and proficient operators. Our network is being carried by only a handful of our current lot of 62 nodes, you can see evidence of this in two places: slack's notary-nodes alarms channel (which is perpetually full of 20+ nodes failing at their job) and an assetchain notarizations counts spreadsheet which has recent sampling of notarizations showing alarming lack of participation of many nodes in what should be their ONE JOB.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x7oNlZXyRDahesnsD1qWsaqC1LlVmEuXNIVDOVfEiHU/edit?usp=sharingPlease forgive us for incentivising our candidate future operators to prove themselves at doing precisely what we expect them to do before we actually elect them. I believe it to be a much better method of evaluation than pretty proposals and noble promises.