Decentralized!

On Tuesday, 29th of October it finally happened: the ICON network moved from a centralized system towards a decentralized one. A thank you goes to the guys from ICON Foundation (especially to Ben Lee and BongAn Ha), who did an amazing job the last couple of weeks. And also the infrastructure team from block42 spend hours of setting up, testing and configuring our servers — special thanks to Christian Lanz for creating a secure and stable network setup!

I would like to cite Min from the foundation, who posted the following on Twitter yesterday:

You are witnessing history today. This is the birth of a new digital nation. From this day forward, it’s up to YOU to participate in ICON governance by voting and taking action. It’s up to US to help build the ICON network together.

This goes out to all #ICONists! It is up to us to participate in building a worldwide decentralized blockchain network. Everyone who is contributing to ICON will strengthen the ecosystem. We as block42 will definitely do so!

P-Rep Network Setup

The network tests prior to #decentralization gave us important insights of how the P-Rep network setup should look like. Finally, we came up with the following configuration (for now):

P-Rep network setup

On our Github profile the entire setup is described in more detail: https://github.com/block42-blockchain-company/icon-prep-network-setup

In order to provide a highly available server infrastructure we installed a monitoring tool. You can have a look on our server’s availability by opening https://stats.prep.b42.tech.

Spread the word!

We keep pushing our efforts in spreading the word about ICON. Again Moshbit CEO Julian Kainz took the chance to speak about the ICON network at the University of Kapfenberg (Austria) on October 22nd.