Great to see DI , VIC and some others back on the thread discussing things. Even though sadly DI is seems is set against radical change for QRK, at a time i really believe it is needed. However, yes, i appreciate on here there are some people whom have a deeper understanding of things and can see perhaps more long term. Firstly though the name. I love the name quark, i don't think we should even consider changing it. To be it is the best name of any alt coin. I of course prefer it to bitcoin too. Let us focus on one thing first and thrash out all possible negatives and positives of the companion coin since i see the core members seem very anti superblock or features being coded into qrk itself. For me the super block is used correctly could have been great for qrk. However, let's let that drop for now. The companion coin - what can it achieve and is it even part of QRK? There are different ways it can be born. A -It is a sidechain of qrk - with 10-20% greater minting (the development pot) - could have anon,pos, all made of gadgets features and gimmicks - and i can tell you these must not be underestimated to draw in new interest in terms of investment and activity. A lot of very smart people sit there scratching their heads wondering why their projects which are clearly superior fail against lesser projects. It would create a funding pot for this coin - every bit of work done on it can clearly be transferred and used on qrk if found to be very desirable or beneficial. It is kind of like a free R and D project for qrk. Every bit of marketing paid for from this development pot can benefit qrk also. Projects and services for this coin can be replicated or enabled to accept qrk. Even if it was not hard linked to qrk forever it would give a lot of great things to qrk and be no more competition than any other alt out there. To claim it the QRK holders outside of qrk that have even perhaps forgotten they own qrk could be induced to come back to qrks forum and register getting involved with the qrk community to get their new companion coin released to them over time, and also an incentive to keep their qrk. I see zero negatives for the companion coin - it can not detract from qrk if done correctly. B - The ipo companion - the companioin coin is only available to purchase in QRK. This way i didn't like at first. However the more i thought about it the more i realised it has a lot of merit to it. People will need to buy QRK to purchase the new coin directly from the companion coin dev team ( this should be obviously the qrk dev team) so they are funding the qrk dev team directly. These funds should all go into a development pot to fund and give incentive for full time work and time put into qrk and the new companion coin. The companion coin of course could still have a development pot coded in say 2-5%. Anything reasonable will be accepted if it was held by the qrk foundation or companion foundation and held in public wallets with ledgers for where the coins were spent. Nobody now grudges devs taking coins for doing work. The ipo version though would need to be top of it's class in terms of what people now want ...if they are wrong to want it makes no difference they fact they do want it is enough to mean you are missing out on a lot by not giving it to them. I would love to see an actual list of positives and negatives regarding the companion coin. I can think of zero negatives at all. Detracting from qrk means nothing. There are 300 alts doing this now hence why qrk is not a top 5 coin. However this companion coin will give a LOT back to quark and it's community. It solves a lot of the issues qrk is facing with zero negatives. Can't ask for more than that. However if someone can point out some real negative impact for qrk here that would be both interesting and helpful. The end goal is hundreds or more ROI projects and services for qrk holders and investors. There are still just say 4 or 5 people discussing our future here, where are the other few 1000? Personally i favour the superblock over companion coin - i just see think if managed correctly it could have such great benefits for such minor risk. However, that does not seem popular so let's thrash out the companion coin idea in detail first. Even if none of it happens it is good to see some debate and life back in the qrk thread. Let's get another few 100 people back on here then get the ROI projects and services going 
I want to thank you for all the time, effort and energy you are placing into your proposals and keeping this thread and discussions going- I personally am not against the idea of a superblock concept per se, if it had been a part of the original design of a coin..However I think that forking Quark's code to place the superblock and thererfore change the original idea/inflation model is not the way to go and may create more negative attention/mistrust for Quark than anything.
The idea of a companion coin to Quark is somewhat appealing, if there were a way to help boost the hashrate (the only real issue for Quark), without creating a fork- while also offering features that Quark supporters might like to see, as well as a development fund for projects - This is why I was asking you to lay out what this might look like, say if the anon features/superblock were added to a companion coin..Is it not possible to accomplish this without affecting Quarks code itself?- Quark itself should remain untouched.
Therefore I tend to lean toward your option A if something could be worked out, that would have no changes to Quark code itself.
Well just about the only thing the companion coin can not solve is the hash rate issue. However, yes the companion coin would not mean touching or altering qrk itself.
I would like to see more discussion and input from the community on this topic:) |
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can you add a 4-6 digit password on the qrk mobile wallet for essential operations ?
Did you mean for sending coins? Right now the app is designed such that you are prompted for a password when backing up private keys- As a word of caution, you should really only be keeping small amounts of Quark on your mobile device to begin with, for day to day transactions, etc (much as you would in keeping cash in your pocket when you leave the house). Also, its good to have a password on the phone itself, in case someone picks it up obviously- Meanwhile I will ask Hash Engineering on your question- and you can also ask him any pressing questions on these threads which he follows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=468594.0 OR https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336215, yes for send operation, like blockchain app which doesn't lets you inside the wallet without a 4 digit pin which is checked at their server and if you try for 2-3 times they ask you for the web wallet password, or mycelium which requires a 6 digit pin when sending payments. In case you lose your phone and they can decode it your wallets remain safe with that extra pin even if you don't have lots of quarks inside your wallet. By the time they decrypt your wallets you can sweep the coins from the backup wallets.
I did message Hash Engineering on this question.
Great points to bring up, I agree that this would be a desirable feature- It think this would certainly be something crucial to have, especially when QRK grows in value. I am not sure why it is not yet a feature on the Schildbach Bitcoin wallet, as this would seem pretty important- At the very least it should be an option.I don't know why it isn't included in the original bitcoin mobile wallet but yea it should be an option. Thanks for passing this question thats nice, do you know if the donation address listed on the mobile app is going to the developers directly ? I wish to make a small contribution to the dev team if it helps  . It is humbling for me to see this...
Also(for peoples general reference here)- Hash Engineering (or anyone) can be tipped on the fabulous Facebook tipping app as well- https://apps.facebook.com/wpmultitipping/
A Quark member of Facebook asked him to join so he could get some additional appreciation there as well:)
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100006287205245&fref=ts
EDIT: On the dedication(Again this is for all members to see this as I don't believe I posted on this thread previously about this), Here is the link for his work with some of our other Quark Community members on our Trello Board for the splash screen alone(aside from the app features itself, which is spread out over 5 threads since January): https://trello.com/c/TzKHZdbq |
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Great to see DI , VIC and some others back on the thread discussing things. Even though sadly DI is seems is set against radical change for QRK, at a time i really believe it is needed. However, yes, i appreciate on here there are some people whom have a deeper understanding of things and can see perhaps more long term. Firstly though the name. I love the name quark, i don't think we should even consider changing it. To be it is the best name of any alt coin. I of course prefer it to bitcoin too. Let us focus on one thing first and thrash out all possible negatives and positives of the companion coin since i see the core members seem very anti superblock or features being coded into qrk itself. For me the super block is used correctly could have been great for qrk. However, let's let that drop for now. The companion coin - what can it achieve and is it even part of QRK? There are different ways it can be born. A -It is a sidechain of qrk - with 10-20% greater minting (the development pot) - could have anon,pos, all made of gadgets features and gimmicks - and i can tell you these must not be underestimated to draw in new interest in terms of investment and activity. A lot of very smart people sit there scratching their heads wondering why their projects which are clearly superior fail against lesser projects. It would create a funding pot for this coin - every bit of work done on it can clearly be transferred and used on qrk if found to be very desirable or beneficial. It is kind of like a free R and D project for qrk. Every bit of marketing paid for from this development pot can benefit qrk also. Projects and services for this coin can be replicated or enabled to accept qrk. Even if it was not hard linked to qrk forever it would give a lot of great things to qrk and be no more competition than any other alt out there. To claim it the QRK holders outside of qrk that have even perhaps forgotten they own qrk could be induced to come back to qrks forum and register getting involved with the qrk community to get their new companion coin released to them over time, and also an incentive to keep their qrk. I see zero negatives for the companion coin - it can not detract from qrk if done correctly. B - The ipo companion - the companioin coin is only available to purchase in QRK. This way i didn't like at first. However the more i thought about it the more i realised it has a lot of merit to it. People will need to buy QRK to purchase the new coin directly from the companion coin dev team ( this should be obviously the qrk dev team) so they are funding the qrk dev team directly. These funds should all go into a development pot to fund and give incentive for full time work and time put into qrk and the new companion coin. The companion coin of course could still have a development pot coded in say 2-5%. Anything reasonable will be accepted if it was held by the qrk foundation or companion foundation and held in public wallets with ledgers for where the coins were spent. Nobody now grudges devs taking coins for doing work. The ipo version though would need to be top of it's class in terms of what people now want ...if they are wrong to want it makes no difference they fact they do want it is enough to mean you are missing out on a lot by not giving it to them. I would love to see an actual list of positives and negatives regarding the companion coin. I can think of zero negatives at all. Detracting from qrk means nothing. There are 300 alts doing this now hence why qrk is not a top 5 coin. However this companion coin will give a LOT back to quark and it's community. It solves a lot of the issues qrk is facing with zero negatives. Can't ask for more than that. However if someone can point out some real negative impact for qrk here that would be both interesting and helpful. The end goal is hundreds or more ROI projects and services for qrk holders and investors. There are still just say 4 or 5 people discussing our future here, where are the other few 1000? Personally i favour the superblock over companion coin - i just see think if managed correctly it could have such great benefits for such minor risk. However, that does not seem popular so let's thrash out the companion coin idea in detail first. Even if none of it happens it is good to see some debate and life back in the qrk thread. Let's get another few 100 people back on here then get the ROI projects and services going
I want to thank you for all the time, effort and energy you are placing into your proposals and keeping this thread and discussions going- I personally am not against the idea of a superblock concept per se, if it had been a part of the original design of a coin..However I think that forking Quark's code to place the superblock and thererfore change the original idea/inflation model is not the way to go and may create more negative attention/mistrust for Quark than anything.
The idea of a companion coin to Quark is somewhat appealing, if there were a way to help boost the hashrate (the only real issue for Quark), without creating a fork- while also offering features that Quark supporters might like to see, as well as a development fund for projects - This is why I was asking you to lay out what this might look like, say if the anon features/superblock were added to a companion coin..Is it not possible to accomplish this without affecting Quarks code itself?- Quark itself should remain untouched.
Therefore I tend to lean toward your option A if something could be worked out, that would have no changes to Quark code itself.
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can you add a 4-6 digit password on the qrk mobile wallet for essential operations ?
Did you mean for sending coins? Right now the app is designed such that you are prompted for a password when backing up private keys- As a word of caution, you should really only be keeping small amounts of Quark on your mobile device to begin with, for day to day transactions, etc (much as you would in keeping cash in your pocket when you leave the house). Also, its good to have a password on the phone itself, in case someone picks it up obviously- Meanwhile I will ask Hash Engineering on your question- and you can also ask him any pressing questions on these threads which he follows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=468594.0 OR https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=336215, yes for send operation, like blockchain app which doesn't lets you inside the wallet without a 4 digit pin which is checked at their server and if you try for 2-3 times they ask you for the web wallet password, or mycelium which requires a 6 digit pin when sending payments. In case you lose your phone and they can decode it your wallets remain safe with that extra pin even if you don't have lots of quarks inside your wallet. By the time they decrypt your wallets you can sweep the coins from the backup wallets.
I did message Hash Engineering on this question.
Great points to bring up, I agree that this would be a desirable feature- It think this would certainly be something crucial to have, especially when QRK grows in value. I am not sure why it is not yet a feature on the Schildbach Bitcoin wallet, as this would seem pretty important- At the very least it should be an option. |
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Thanks for the comments - indeed we will not do anything radical or fundamentally stupid like PoS - i hope you like our solutions when they come. : )
can you add a 4-6 digit password on the qrk mobile wallet for essential operations ? |
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This post is from quarkfx, what do you guys think? Quark can use some technological updates, i would donate couple k quarks for this if it makes quark better. People on the bitcoin IRC treat this as some really valuable developments, maybe we can implement some of its ideas? https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdfThat could come in for the companion coin for sure. |
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Hello Max,
Question on the Quark Wallet:
The most recent windows update included a QR code reveal feature, however I am not able to find how to reveal the QR on my Mac wallet- has this feature been updated on your version?
Thank you very much!
Sure, here's a build of Quark with QR codes turned on: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i17lj5ag3jg9vi4/Quarkcoin-Qt-0.8.3.24-Mac.zipThank you very much MAX!!!! p.s. thank you for the reply on the wallet.dat also, sounds like its a good idea to make copies regularly... We will have to find out if there is a wallet.dat fix feature for Quark |
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Also Max,
From the Quark Forum this issue:
So I'm running the newest version, 8.3.22 on the latest version of OS X, 10.9.2
One day, Quark wallet crashed and wouldn't reopen. I have a backup of the corrupted wallet file, but no time machine backups going further back than that for technical reasons.
So I took things a step beyond the "try deleting prefs" stuff. I downloaded a new copy of the wallet in to a completely new machine. I let it sync up to the network. Then I quit and tried swapping in my corrupt wallet. It doesn't like this. When I try...
It loads the block index...
It tries to load the wallet...
Then the error happens:
A fatal error occurred. Quark can no longer continue safely and will quit.
EXCEPTION: St13runtime_error
CWalletDB::ListAccountCreditDebit() : cannot create DB cursor
quarkcoin in Runaway exception
Although, I'm pretty sure I usually get a different error. But I hit ok on that error message, and Quark goes bye bye. Just tried it again, same error. If I remove the wallet.dat file, quarkcoin wallet will fire up no problem, just with an empty wallet. This is a totally clean fresh installation of quarkcoin, on a machine that has never had it installed before. This problem started on my old machine that has been running quarkwallet for a few months. As I said above, one day it crashed and wouldn't reopen.
What else can I do?
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Hello Max,
Question on the Quark Wallet:
The most recent windows update included a QR code reveal feature, however I am not able to find how to reveal the QR on my Mac wallet- has this feature been updated on your version?
Thank you very much!
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Those with nothing but negative remarks and scorn for the work others have done should be strongly discouraged. If someone does anything at all of their own accord for qrk it should be a positive thing. Ask yourself what you yourself have done for qrk before commenting on those that have tried and continue to try things.
Amen!
I mean are there really only a handful of people reading this thread? There is thousands of wallets holding qrk? where are these people and how to reach them and get them involved?
One thing I will say of my own experience in getting the mobile wallet project accomplished... In trying to get attention for the project, I wrote to every single member of the Quark Foundation Forum to ask them to comment on the thread- what a pest I became, lol. But sometimes this is the sort of thing required to get something done, especially when peoples attention may be elsewhere- The wallet is finally just about done, but the point here is that if you really want to get attention or answers to your ideas, you might need to write to people on an individual basis:)A new companion coin (side chain of qrk) that has a development pot held by escrow and can only be released by votes of those holding the coin could be another option. If the purists don't want features like anon pos etc etc.... then fine. Let's have a companion coin as suggested by a few others before. Create it with 360M - have 60M held by escrows to funds years of development. QRK investors will have to come to the board and claim them.... this will bring qrk investors to the board and get them involved. On your idea of the Qrk superblock, unfortunately this is strikingly similar to the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve (a.k.a, "QE" or "Quantitative Easing", and many other labels for the same thing)-- Creating new money for the purpose of keeping the system from collapsing(although they don't say it quite like this, they say it is for building infrastructure and supporting the banks to lend more (ala "tarp")), dilutes the money supply by creating more $$ (or Quark in the case of a "Super Block" ), and only gives the appearance of fixing things in the short term- Long term its not enough, and the $ (or qrk) is worth less because you just changed Quarks inflation model--Of course I understand that the Superblock idea isnt entirely the same as what the fed does, i.e., creating money into debt, but nonetheless it changes things long term for Quark and not all beneficial..
However the idea of a "companion coin" in some form is interesting, seems this warrants more exploring and discussion. |
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At the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, Shaquille O’Neal confirmed speculations in an interview with GamerFitnation that there would be a Shaq Fu 2.[8] On March 6, 2014 an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign was started for Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn. It will feature gameplay that heavily differs from its predecessor. The funding goal was $450,000 USD. If achieved, the game creators at Big Deez Productions promised the game would be released on consoles (PS4, Wii U, PS3, XBox One and XBox 360). The campaign ended on May 5, 2014, with the funding goal exceeded at $473,884.[1] Additionally, the game creators at Big Deez have made an unprecedented announcement: They will be accepting Quark crypto-currency as a method of in-game payment. [9] This is awesome. I have to say the guys working on quark are one of the few in the Altcoin scene who really have a professional attitude and discipline. Keep up the good work. Well thank you very much! A dedicated Reddit member brought this to our attention that it needed updating, and so it was done- still needs a bit of editing... |
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QUARK MOBILE WALLET BETA #17, with improved video splash screen!!!
Check it out folks!!
After hours more of hard work, Hash Engineering has succeeded in *near completion* of the Quark Mobile Wallet with a ***new and improved video splash screen!***
Special thanks to Quark FX, and Undercard for making the final splash screen possible- Here is the link to the Trello Card for anyone who wants to see how this work got done, and all the effort it took these guys- since early May: https://trello.com/c/TzKHZdbq
**Not yet on Google play (but in the next day or two can get it there).
Get it here now: https://github.com/HashEngineering/quarkcoin-wallet/releases/download/v0.1.7/quark-wallet-0.1.17-beta.apk
Coming out of Beta soon- Please post comments on any bugs you experience and send in log reports.
Thank you Hash Engineering!!
Donations for Hash Engineering Here: http://imageshack.com/a/img842/2360/carv.png
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QRK is extremely fast and very very secure. It is the most convenient coin by far comparing to BTC or even LTC. The fact that so many coins are owned by 5-6 wallets is a kind of a problem, personally I do not understand why someone is keeping some 25 mln on one address. Maybe he has a hoarding syndrome  I don't think that someone is keeping 25 mln QRK on one address. It has already been shown that the "big wallets" belong to different exchanges like btc38. http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin/comments/25rt89/52_of_quarks_belong_to_only_25_addresses/I was just in the middle of saying that when you posted, so thank you and I second what you say!! |
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Quark you mean the one with hidden premine?
ummm..someone here is grossly misinformed  |
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This is really good stuff! I did not even know all of this- Interesting!!  |
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Hello MaxPower,
Just wanted to inquire whether there is a timeline on the latest Quark wallet update #20 for Mac users?
Thanks!
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I am pleased to announce that this app is now on Google Play!!: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hashengineering.quarkcoin.wallet (Make sure to leave a great Google Play review!)
Thank you Hash Engineering!!! (If you love this app, please scan/send Hash a little Qrk love!! )
Also, thanks to MJB Monetary Metals and Quark FX for assist with the color design:)**Please also continue to report bugs/comments/suggestions here on this thread. Thank you.
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