Witness Statement - @drakernoise

🗳️ Declaration of Intent

I am committed to supporting the Blurt ecosystem by providing a robust, secure, and geographically independent seed and RPC node. My focus is on infrastructure stability and developer tools.

My Mission:

Maintain 99.9% uptime for block production.
Provide a free, public, high-performance RPC endpoint (SSL secured).
Ensure data integrity with daily backups and health monitoring.
Support the community with technical guides and open-source contributions.

⚙️ Infrastructure Specs

Hosted on enterprise-grade hardware in Germany (Hetzner Data Center), optimized for low-latency and high-throughput.

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8700GE

Memory 64GB DDR4 ECC

Connectivity 1 Gbit/s Dedicated

Storage NVMe SSD RAID 1

🛡️ Software Stack

OS: Ubuntu Server (Hardened)
Node: Dockerized blurtd (Latest Release)
Database: Shared Memory / MMap (Fast Access)
Protection:
- UFW Firewall (Whitelisted Ports only)
- Nginx Reverse Proxy with Rate Limiting (60 req/min)
- Fail2Ban Intrusion Prevention

📡 Public Endpoints

Developers are welcome to use my public RPC node:

RPC (SSL): https://blurt.drakernoise.com
ChainID: cd8d90f29b37a38e652a28b0c55aa75813f59b42bb75a5196cf15228518e9f45

Note: Browser access returns 403 Forbidden. Use POST requests.