How to Watch the EOS Blockchain As It Goes Live

One of them will need to be randomly chosen to create the genesis block, and then voting on the official first slate of block producers will take place.

How long after the code release will it take before someone launches the software? A group of block producer candidates have committed to running a series of tests on the software before creating the first block, but it's open source.

Will the genesis block get created without incident? When the initial block producers line up to win a position in the circle of validators, a random selection process will decide which create that first block.

Which block producers get voted in to the top jobs? Most people would probably agree that the best scenario ends up seeing some really sophisticated groups located all over the world getting chosen to serve as block producers.

Will users change their votes once they see the composition of block producers after it first goes live, or will that first group basically hold steady?

There's not user-friendly tools for viewing vote counts or even seeing which block producers get chosen.

Watch along with EOS Go. EOS Go has been the internet's collective cheerleader for EOS, working primarily on Steemit and YouTube to provide education about the launch process.

The group has already done live interviews with all the major block producer candidates, and they will be key to setting up the network.

Look for them to talk live with block producers around the world as the code gets tested and then ultimately launched.

Provided EOS launch successfully, it shouldn't be long until developers spin up some more direct ways to peer into its governance system, such as portals for viewing transaction volumes, staked votes and the average size of blocks.