It simply went away once more people got involved.



Much bigger innovations and progress are made in GPUs lately than in CPUs.
And Asics are a different beast totally. Basically every thinkable algorithm can be made into a specialized ASIC,
but the problem seems to be more in the memory and data throughput.


Yes, it's a jungle out there. Have you ever seen a book at amazon with the name "Bitcoin, how the protocol works"...?
Is there any academic institution (university, etc) teaching the bitcoin protocol basics and looking for further innovations?

I don't think so, cause they are government institutions, and no taxmoney will go into that.

So, it remains to be seen... at this moment bitcoin and altcoins are a "closed book" even for large parts of academia.

That's what makes it so interesting.

So honest answer: sorry, I can't answer your questions and concerns without first trying to understand what happens at lowlevel protocol in those cryptocoins.

so, is QRK still solo minable, or not..?

oh that is so awesome, hope I am not too late:

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Thanks.

1) at the beginning that was a problem, now not anymore.

2) No one can guarantee anything. Since when do cryptocurrencies or any software whatsoever come with a guarantee?

Who knows what kind of computers will exist in even 10 years. With a little bad luck those future computers can do all bitcoin
mining within a day, and make bitcoins very obsolete...

3) The money master Bill Still is behind it, and it has the same name like the most likeable figure in StarTrek Deepspace nine.
No, just kidding. I suppose that remains to be seen, they say it has many different hashing algorithms put together and not just one, like bitcoin.
But does this logic equate more security?
If I put 6 different locks on my door, is it more secure? Not really... there are other factors.

Yes, and I understand the concerns and doubts, because there are really scamcoins out there.

But at this point, what happens with QRK is like a deliberate character assassination.

Best thing to do, is not concern ourselves with defending ourselves but with working on QRK community and tools, and try to realize most of the points of the previous list that was posted here.

and Bill Still just released an other video: Bitcoin in China:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15hBcMBGONI

lol, yeah, I am watching it as we speak... started about 20 min ago... what an idiot, the same lame accusations over and over again.

All accusations could have been made with bitcoin 3 years ago...

That's like jealousy between siblings... like the older brother who hates on the younger because he hates competition....can't explain the psychology behind this otherwise...

lol, hey I expect an ASIC miner too, and I am a QRK lover...

I am not going to use the ASIC for bitcoin mining though... there are other SHA-256 currencies out there.

Why is bitcoin getting all the spotlight..., lol

We agree. But depends on the specifications of the job. It can easily be 250k if you ask me.
People are not gonna want to use a cheap site. You need some sort of reputation system, etc...

You have a crystal ball or something?

I think QRK that are payed now for a developer should not be fixated on some future speculative price.
Make the devs believe that they are really on to something, and that the price is really worth it.

Now is really not the time for greed, lol

Don't worry, I am working on my own marketcap (but not only) website, it will be finished within a week.
Be assured that QRK will not be treated badly there. ;-)

EXACTLY!

The only difficulty is to find a giveaway system that can't be easily abused.

But it is true, nearly everyone I see thinks QRK is massively premined. And they distance themselves even more if you try to give a so-called explanation why it's NOT premined, although it absolutely looks like that.
First impression is what counts, sadly. But that's just the way it is.

Another form of really valuable giveaway can be learned when you look at how devcoins are distributed to developers.
If you want to spread QRK around the good way, create a form of public to-do-list, where jobs are advertised, like:

JOB: create portal similar to localbitcoins. Goal, within 3 months. Pledge: 250k QRK

etc...

Let the developer know what he can get in advance if he helps the community.
And have a website where those pledged amounts of QRK are kept by an escrow.
And have a public address visible where the amount of QRK is checkable.

etc

Great list.

A thing to add, would be a quarkcoin giveaway...


If quark is to be this fairly distributed currency, we should really think about spreading those QRK around, especially to beginners.

And especially now when QRK is below 1$.

And I don't mean a quarkcoin giveaway here on this forum, but somewhere more qrk-only-related.
Make the user do something... sign up, download a wallet, etc and give him a qrk as present.

You hear me, QRK-Millionaires?

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Still yearning for some sexcoins.

Thank you.

Why change the logo? Now that it has been on exchanges, marketcap sites and on multiple videos and tweets like bill stills, etc..
it's too late for that.

Quark logo is FINE!

But I like the rest of the design of this site very much.

Bill Still's website billstill.com is still down, now for nearly a week.

Is it so difficult to just switch to a hoster with bigger bandwidth? Has he no backup of his website?

A professional website would never allow such a big downtime.

Or is there another reason for the disappearance of billstill.com???

It's really like the most inappropriate time for him to have his website down, now with all the publicity and future maxkeiser event.

What the hell is going on here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IctBSH5a9Sw

At second thought, it can be done at address-level, but not at wallet level.
No one knows what you have in your wallet, only you.

So a clever holder of big quark money, will distribute his millions over hundreds of addresses to disquise himself from the public eyes.

You need your own blockexplorer that scans all available addresses in the blockchains, and spits out the amount of QRK in them.

This was done with Bitcoin, so it can be done with QRK.

Now that you talk about it, that would be something that interests me to, I might take a look at it. :-)

Quark is as much a scamcoin as the quark of startrek is a scammer.



Yes, he does use some shaddy practices, but he is not a real criminal. His imaginative ways of making business and love of gambling makes him a likable character, without being a sociopathic crook.... but hey it's a fine line.... lol

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