Hard Fork Special: Linux and Raspberry Pi In this blog, we look at the Qtum mainnet hard fork at block 680,000 on August 28, 2020. This hard fork added protocol and consensus changes to activate offline staking and was a mandatory update for the Qtum Core wallets Qtum-Qt (the GUI desktop wallet) and qtumd (the command-line server wallet). There were no updates required for other types of wallets (mobile wallets, hardware wallets, etc.) and no new coins were created.
The hard fork for Qtum version 0.19.1 added offline staking capability, allowing address delegation and super stakers. The Qtum Core wallet can now be operated as a super staker to receive address delegations from others and stake their UTXOs. The hard fork happened at block 680,000) on August 28, 2020, at 7:11 pm GMT and only applied to the Qtum Core wallets Qtum-Qt and qtumd, no other wallets. While updated wallets made the hard fork automatically, users that don’t update in time saw their wallets disconnected from the main network, are not be able to make transactions, and (for staking wallets) may see their coins staked on a split chain, where they are difficult to recover. There is no new coin from the hard fork, but a good chance to temporarily lose coins for staking wallets that did not update in time.
Read all about it here: https://blog.qtum.org/hard-fork-special-linux-raspberry-pi-40e60341923d
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Hard Fork Special: Mac In this blog, we look at the Qtum mainnet hard fork at block 680,000 on August 28, 2020. This hard fork added protocol and consensus changes to activate offline staking and was a mandatory update for the Qtum Core wallets Qtum-Qt (the GUI desktop wallet) and qtumd (the command-line server wallet). There were no updates required for other types of wallets (mobile wallets, hardware wallets, etc.) and no new coins were created.
The hard fork for Qtum version 0.19.1 added offline staking capability, allowing address delegation and super stakers. The Qtum Core wallet can now be operated as a super staker to receive address delegations from others and stake their UTXOs. The hard fork happened at block 680,000 on August 28, 2020, at 7:11 pm GMT and only applied to the Qtum Core wallets Qtum-Qt and qtumd, no other wallets. While updated wallets made the hard fork automatically, users that don’t update in time saw their wallets disconnected from the main network, are not be able to make transactions, and (for staking wallets) may see their coins staked on a split chain, where they are difficult to recover. There is no new coin from the hard fork, but a good chance to temporarily lose coins for staking wallets that did not update in time.
Read all about it here: https://blog.qtum.org/hard-fork-special-mac-462e11a879d1
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Why Qtum is Better for Building DeFi Overnight, it seems that everyone is talking about DeFi (Decentralized Finance). The combination of traditional finance and decentralized blockchain networks are creating a wonderful revolution. However, at this time of rapid development, the entire DeFi ecosystem still faces various constraints and challenges. One of the most important challenges is that the existing blockchain infrastructure cannot support complex DeFi applications. Whether it is virtual machines, TPS, fees, or on-chain governance, there are many limitations.
Qtum launched with its mainnet in September 2017. It is the industry’s first smart contract platform based on the same UTXO model as Bitcoin. After 3 years of technological iteration, Qtum has gradually developed a variety of unique technical and environmental characteristics, which are entirely suitable for building DeFi projects. This article will discuss this in detail.
Read more at https://blog.qtum.org/why-qtum-is-better-for-building-defi-f9725fb7ee4a
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Development Updates (July 28 - August 3) Qtum CoreQtum core updates normally consist of Qtum Improvement Proposals. These QIPs are generated by both our developers and the community and in some cases requests from enterprise users. Our developers evaluate the impact of each QIP and work on high priority QIPs. All bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been issued to the core project will be listed here. - Qtum Core v0.19.1 Mandatory Update
Infrastructure for Qtum Qtum Neutron & x86 Virtual MachineQtum Neutron is the infrastructure to support new virtual machines and the first will be the x86 virtual machine allowing smart contract development in C, Rust and other languages. The EVM will continue, but the x86 VM will allow easy creation of smart contracts using safe, well-known, mature languages and tools, and also provide a new state memory model using DeltaDB. - Continued work on Neutron
Lightning Network
- No update for this period
Qtum SDKQtumJ is BitcoinJ ported to the Qtum blockchain protocol. The BitcoinJ library is a Java implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, which allows it to maintain a wallet and send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core. It comes with full documentation and some example apps showing how to use it. Qtum Explorer & WalletsThe Qtum Explorer is our blockchain explorer that is used for viewing transaction details on the Qtum blockchain. The primary blockchain explorer site is qtum.info. We frequently release updates to both explorer and the web wallet sites. Additionally, you’ll find information regarding the official Qtum Electrum wallet and support/feature updates to hardware wallets or other interesting services/products Qtum.info ExplorerQtum.Info, as the official blockchain browser of Qtum, mainly provides information such as network status, transaction records, data indicators of blockchain and visual charts. Qtum users, exchanges, wallets, mining pools, and other commonly used data service tools. Electrum Wallet- Updated Electrum Wallet v4.0.2a1 Released
Mobile Wallet- Working on iOS & Android versions
- Check the Google Play Store for the "Qtum Wallet" published by the Qtum Foundation
- Official website: https://qtumeco.io/wallet
Web Wallet- Preparing for Network Upgrade
Qtum Testing- Public Testing for Qtum v0.19.1 has started - Qtum Testnet Warm-Up for Offline Staking starting soon!
Documentation
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Development Updates (July 21 - 27) Qtum CoreQtum core updates normally consist of Qtum Improvement Proposals. These QIPs are generated by both our developers and the community and in some cases requests from enterprise users. Our developers evaluate the impact of each QIP and work on high priority QIPs. All bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been issued to the core project will be listed here. - Qtum Core v0.19.1 Mandatory Update
Infrastructure for QtumQtum Neutron & x86 Virtual MachineQtum Neutron is the infrastructure to support new virtual machines and the first will be the x86 virtual machine allowing smart contract development in C, Rust and other languages. The EVM will continue, but the x86 VM will allow easy creation of smart contracts using safe, well-known, mature languages and tools, and also provide a new state memory model using DeltaDB - Continued work on Neutron
Lightning Network- No update for this period
Qtum SDKQtumJ is BitcoinJ ported to the Qtum blockchain protocol. The BitcoinJ library is a Java implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, which allows it to maintain a wallet and send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core. It comes with full documentation and some example apps showing how to use it. GitHub: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtumjQtum Explorer & WalletsThe Qtum Explorer is our blockchain explorer that is used for viewing transaction details on the Qtum blockchain. The primary blockchain explorer site is qtum.info. We frequently release updates to both explorer and the web wallet sites. Additionally, you’ll find information regarding the official Qtum Electrum wallet and support/feature updates to hardware wallets or other interesting services/products Qtum.info ExplorerQtum.Info, as the official blockchain browser of Qtum, mainly provides information such as network status, transaction records, data indicators of blockchain and visual charts. Qtum users, exchanges, wallets, mining pools, and other commonly used data service tools. Electrum Wallet- Updated Electrum Wallet v4.0.2 Released
Mobile Wallet- Working on iOS & Android versions
- Check the Google Play Store for the "Qtum Wallet" published by the Qtum Foundation
- Official website: https://qtumeco.io/wallet
Web Wallet- Preparing for Network Upgrade
Qtum Testing- Public Testing for Qtum v0.19.1 has started - Qtum Testnet Warm-Up for Offline Staking starting soon!
Documentation
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