XRP Validator Prepped For Apocalyptic Events—Here’s How
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April 11, 2024 10:54 am
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One XRP validator has taken precautions to prep for the worst apocalyptic-style events and preserve user data.
Towo Labs is operating an XRP validator node deep underground at the Bahnhof Pionen data center, which lies under the city of Stockholm, Sweden.
The data center is nestled inside a former nuclear bunker roughly 100 feet underground.
Such a bunker would not only protect against nuclear explosions, and the ensuing radioactive fallout, but protect from EMP attacks as well.
Additionally, the sensitive user data would be shielded from other cataclysmic natural disasters such as mass flooding and deep space asteroid impacts.
Towo Labs featured this about their decision to run the XRP validator node from a deep underground bunker:
Our validator runs on a bare-metal server featuring a 3.4 GHz hexa-core CPU, 64 GB DDR4 RAM, hardware RNG, mirrored NVMe SSDs, redundant PSUs and 1 Gbit/s network link. Pionen data center is owned and run by Bahnhof, Sweden's oldest independent ISP. (2/4) pic.twitter.com/bQ1gmZcKRv
— Towo Labs (@TowoLabs) February 19, 2021
Our validation public key is n9JkSnNqXxEct1t78dwVZDjq7PsznXtukxjyGvGJr4TdwVSbd7DJ. We'll announce scheduled maintenance from this Twitter handle, a few days in advance. @WietseWind @alloynetworks @XRPL_rabbit @nbougalis @JoelKatz @xrpscan @Bakshayev @justmoon @jonaagenilsen (4/4) pic.twitter.com/US7SfQ3Cqp
— Towo Labs (@TowoLabs) February 19, 2021
Bein Crypto had more details:
Pionen was built as a civil defense center in 1943 to ensure essential government functions.
It can withstand a hydrogen bomb because it is buried under a mountain and accessible only by a tunnel.
It has since been converted into a data center, owned and run by Bahnhof, Sweden’s oldest independent ISP.
Several users outlined the challenges that fintech and financial architecture face from electromagnetic threats and the benefits afforded by an underground bunker.
In prep for financial resilience under an EMP attack #Ripple has secured a validator in a bunker.
Ripples validator is housed in a hardened, offline bunker with no public access. This protects the validator's private keys and ensures reliable, uninterrupted participation in the… https://t.co/x5hTR3za5D pic.twitter.com/8j5ZXfTwWG— Mr. Man (@MrManXRP) April 3, 2024
Bunkers deep underground⬇️
The new financial network will be unstoppable. #XRP https://t.co/AYPKI14Gft
— Chad Steingraber (@ChadSteingraber) April 3, 2024
$XRP $XLM pic.twitter.com/ujUeBn8tz0
— Boss Level (@Level19IRL) April 3, 2024
Data Center Dynamics had more on the underground data center:
Bahnhof’s data center in Stockholm pioneered the creative data center movement, when it opened in 2008 in a former nuclear bunker.
Pionen’s design is consciously based on a James Bond bad guy’s crib, and makes several references to the 1970s movie Silent Running.
Built by Jon Karlung and briefly the home of Wikileaks, it has backup power from diesel engines designed for submarines, and features waterfalls, a salt-water fishtank, and plants growing under simulated daylight.
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