What is Quark?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrNnrvet7Ao


Specifications

* No pre-mine
* Super secure hashing
9 rounds of hashing from 6 hashing functions
(blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein)
3 rounds apply a random hashing function
* CPU / GPU mining
* Quick block generation: 30 seconds
* 2048 QRK per block (halving every 60480 blocks ~ 3 weeks)
* Block reward will never drop below 1 QRK
* Total of 247 million QRK will be mined in ~ 6 months, after that ~ 1 million QRK p.a. (~ 0.5% p.a inflation)
* Difficulty re-targets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)


Downloads

Source code
https://github.com/quark-project/quark

Release 0.10.4.5
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/tag/v0.10.4.5

Windows Qt wallet
Win32
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.4.5/quark-0.10.4.5-win32-setup.exe
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.4.5/quark-0.10.4.5-win32.zip

Win64
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.4.5/quark-0.10.4.5-win64-setup.exe
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.4.5/quark-0.10.4.5-win64.zip

Mac OSX
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.4.5/quark-0.10.4.5-osx.dmg

Recent release history
3 May 2017 - 0.10.4.5: Checkpoints
22 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.4: Improved syncing
21 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.3: Disconnect old peers - Required upgrade for all Quark 0.9 wallets
9 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.2: Start signalling for BIP66 (strict DER checking)
2 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.1: Core 0.10 upgrade
15 Jun 2016 - 0.9.2.7: Update (Checkpoint, Win installlers, OSX build)
6 Oct 2015 - 0.9.2.6: Checkpoint
11 Sep 2015 - 0.9.2.5: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
31 May 2015 - 0.9.2.4: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
18 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.3: MedianTime fix. Checkpoint.
17 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.2: Checkpoint, OpenSSL fix.
25 Oct 2014 - 0.9.2.1 released.


Exchanges



Block explorers

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/qrk/
https://bitinfocharts.com/quarkcoin/explorer/


Links

Home - http://www.qrknet.info
Slack - http://quarkcoin.slack.com
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin


Standalone miners CPU & GPU

CPU Miners

Cp3u Miner

Discussion page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=353448.0
Downloads : http://sourceforge.net/projects/philosopherstone/files/QRK/  (for Windows etc)
Source: https://github.com/palmd/Cp3u

Other CPU miners

Neisklar's Quark version of CPU Miner (source code): https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer
Original release of Neisklar's Quark CPU Miner (source code) - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wVXhULTFEOWMtaTQ/edit?usp=sharing

GPU miners

SPH-SGminer

Discussion page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0  < please check in on this discussion page for latest, GPU miners are new.
Source: https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer

Smolen's GPU miner thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310975.0


Pools

e-pool - http://p2pool.e-pool.net:5860/static/
Mpool - https://www.mpool.me/qrk/
Aikapool - https://aikapool.com/qrk
Mineblockspool - http://mineblocks.co.uk/


Solo Mining instructions

* Launch your wallet with -gen=1, or add "gen=1" to your quarkcoin.conf file, or type "setgenerate true -1" from the debug console


Pool Mining instructions

* Get CPU or GPU miner from above links
* Follow instructions from each discussion topic
* VPS mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264866.0
* Various optimised standalone miners available