Quark is definitely a good investment in the long run (IMO it is simply the best, most secure and fastest coin out there), but right now it is available on Cryptsy for a very low price. So it is a very good time to buy Quark.

Hello Guac,

Finally someone is working on this!!! I have posted about same idea a while ago and was looking for programmers, but received little response.

Here are my 2 quarks.  This is how my original idea was different from yours :
1) Built-in auto-trading between currencies:
  a) the wallet would also have a decentralised torrent market, so that people can exchange Quarks for Primecoin or any other coin.
  b) If I have Quarks but the seller accepts only Namecoin, I can pay him that amount in Quarks and he will receive in Namecoins.

2) Plugin for Firefox, Chrome and all the major browsers. So that people can pay online or tip very quickly.  Must have a very intuitive UI, so that average internet user can use it.

3) all the wallets should be routinely backed-up in the cloud, so that people don't loose ALL their money just because their hard drive crashes.

4) Mobile apps - so that people can use their phones instead of credit cards ...just enter the amount and and tap another phone; or just tap the till and confirm -and the money is paid.
 
You might also want to contact the coin called "Kreditz" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396313.0;topicseen - it's a new coin in development but it will have a completely new type of wallet with loads of  original features like routine payments like Direct Debit etc. You might want to join forces and collaborate.

A word of warning, I would be very selective about which coins should be included by default. There are a lot of shit-coins and scam coins that have recently appeared.  I'd include: Bitcoin, Quark, Litecoin, Peercoin, Anoncoin, Primecoin, Namecoin. The rest should write their own plugins if they have serious developers.

Keep it up!!

I don't mean to "troll" because I'm new to Particles, but can someone please explain with bullet-points how exactly is Particle better than Quark?
If the story of Quark's insta-mine is the main reason, with the same token I can point you at the way that a select few are mining Particles with those free Microsoft Azure trials, (it is mostly for American card holders. Doesn't work for UK and many other countries) thus already creating a seriously wide gap between miners even during the first days of the launch - which is not what mining is intended for if you read Satoshi Nakamoto's original white paper.  

If anyone seriously thinks that Particle is better than Quark, then I'll sell you my Particles at the rate of 4PRT=1QRK (8,000Particles=2,000Quarks). It should be a great bargain for you, given that Quark's price is crashing right now.  Anybody interested? PM me.

I think if this coin is hoping for a wide spread adoption, it should seriously think of a better name than "Particles".

For example, what about Electrum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum

@bettercoinpool

I was among the first users to sign up the day before the launch.

User #58
Username: matrixfighter
Wallet: Gnz9m5KaMdFpvxZXmwA9eykT8i27QSUowD

I was mining with the bettercoinpool as soon as the launch started, but no payment came from your pool!  So I switched to another pool. But it was the most valuable first hours of mining that went unpaid.

I'm getting excited about this project by the day,the more I think about it.

2 more suggestions:

1) How about using all that computational power to discover new numbers in Pi , something like what this guy did here http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html and also here http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-12t/  but on a much much larger scale.

2) How about changing the name of this coin to something original?  Kreditz sounds just like "Credits" and pretty ordinary. We need an original name like no other, in order to reach critical mass usage.

Thanks Xamda,
I have about 15-20 different coin wallets and they all work fine together.  I have disabled all of them to see if Particle would work, but alas.   This Particle coin wallet was the most weirdest coin wallet because it came as a single .exe file (no .dll libraries) and I'm suspecting that this could one of the reasons. Another reason could be that this is just a half baked coin.  The fact that it works on most computers does not validate this wallet.  In order to make it a fair launch ,it should work on all computers. Indeed, I see from other posts that some other people are having problems syncing too.
I have also ran this wallet on my old XP laptop -- same problem, doesn't sync.

Hi, Thanks.
I have no other computer.  I have different miners and many different wallets on this Win 7 machine. All working perfectly fine. But this Particle QT wallet came as a single .exe file, which is unlike others - and it just refuses to sync.  Firewall isn't the problem.

Can you paste your particle.conf file please?

Thanks! 

HOW can I make my Wallet QT to sync up?
I downloaded the Wallet. It is just the .exe file. I double click on it and the QT opens,but it is  permanently showing "No block source available" 4 days behind.

I created a particle.conf file in AppData/Roaming/Particle with the following lines in it:
testnet=0
listen=1
maxconnections=100
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcport=8776
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1

Restarted the wallet several times!

But it is still not syncing up!!!

PLEASE HELP!

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Thanks!

My ParticleQT wallet is not synching at all.
Can some one please tell me what to do?
Do I need a particle.conf file to be placed in AppData/Roaming/Particle folder?  if yes,what should I put in that.conf file?

I copy/pasted particle.conf from the OP, restarted Wallet several times, and no change.  Still not synching

Thanks.

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Thanks! and Happy New Year!

+1 for Nullu's idea of Direct Debits!

Also, make sure that this coin does not get instamined in the first weeks.  That is the only drawback of Quark, and damaged it's reputation a bit.  The release of new coins should be steady and over a relatively long time.

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Thanks.  (from a guy who has no Travelcoins)

Because of such "minor" mistake, this makes it a very unfair and failed launch!

I have waited for the launch for 2 days, and was here on the clock, waiting will all my gear setup.  After hours of mining - nothing.  While some got tens of thousands of GiftCoins within minutes.

The promised Giveaway (which is now 3 hours overdue) better be generous, with 1000 or 5000 GiftCoins per person, or else after tonight this coin's reputation will be forever tarnished!!!

If you agree, send GiftCoins here:

GiftCoin: GsTovtFd3jEDMB2tb7YoPiETiR2cmAojmD

I fully agree with all the points made by MarcoTC!!!
I have been in search of a perfect crypto-for-the-masses, and so far in my book Quark came closest.
Here are my advices, with some elements of what I would envision the perfect coin:
* Look into the Future!
* Make sure the coin is distributed as evenly and as widely as possible.  Right now any Fiat represents more equality of wealth than any Crypto!  This the greatest problem that cryptos haven't been able to solve. One way to achieve this is to make each wallet come with "frozen" 10,000 Kreditz, and as people mine and spend over a very long time, the more of those frozen credits will become available. Kinda like inheritance that matures.  Also these Kredits can mature faster if they invite other people who reference them.  Each wallet can be installed on a device only once (need to have checks against cheating) maybe it integrates with the cloud wallet or some kind of algoithm that creates a unique numeric identifier key from reading (but not storing) a fingerprint.
* Make the mining CPU only - available to the masses.
* Make the mining as an optional tab in the wallet and so that even grandmas can mine! and choose how many percent of their CPU power they wanna give.  If they know that this is what powers the network, many people will easily give 5-10% of their CPU power for free.
* Make it the fastest coin possible. So that people and machines can use it as an everyday currency.
* Make it as secure as possible. (Quark)
* Make it as Anonymous as possible maybe take some features from Anoncoin.
* Have a tiny controlled annual inflation built into the system, like Quark.
* the Wallet GUI should be beautiful (example Earthcoin, CasinoCoin) and PRACTICAL
* transactions should have messaging and attachments
* escrow
* if you want to create a coin for the future, think Economics and not just code. This guy highlights some serious economical flaws of Bitcoin http://youtu.be/W-sfd9jen1A

These are some of my points.  I know, looking way into the future. There are more points, but that'll  do for now.  (Maybe I just need to team up with a programmer and create my own coin)