The NEO Amsterdam Conference is currently taking place in capitol city of the Netherlands, and it has just been announced that KPN, which is the largest Telecommunications company in the Netherlands, is going to run a NEO full consensus node.
KPN
Being Dutch myself, I can confirm this is a pretty big deal. KPN is indeed the largest and oldest telecommunications provider in the Netherlands, originally state owned (the K stands for 'Koninklijke' which is Dutch for 'Royal') and privatized in the 1990's. It has since remained the largest player in the telecommunications space ever since. Many other telecommunications companies actually make use of the KPN network. KPN handles everything, from mobile phones to landlines, internet connections and digital television (all-in-one-packages). KPN as a company is worth about $12 billion USD.NEO FULL NODE
During the NEO Amsterdam Conference it was announced that KPN will be running/hosting a NEO consensus node. This is likely part of the wider Decentralization effort that is going on with NEO. The Amsterdam Conference was sponsored by both NEO and KPN:
While running a full node is no official partnership of any kind, and this wouldn't be so anyway as NEO aims to be a decentralized blockchain, but it does indicate the KPN is ready to build on, or experiment with the NEO blockchain which is a very good sign because KPN is by all standards a very serious and respected company.
The news of KPN running a consensus node was confirmed by one of City of Zion's developers on Twitter:
(source: Twitter)
CONFERENCE UPDATES
A lot of other things were discussed and explained during the NEO Amsterdam Conference. No, I was not there myself, but there are reports surfacing on the NEO subreddit that give a good oversight.Have a look at this redditor's post to see an overview of everything that passed by during the NEO Amsterdam Conference 2018.
I'm ever so bullish on my precious, precioussss NEO! $150 today, certainly! But I've been seeing this as a $300-500 coin for a long time now, with GAS at about 50% of that.
