Not confirmed yet (they're still doing some testing on our testnet to make sure it all works well on their systems), but the plan is for Bittrex to help with the swap

Feel free to check our financial transparency report at the bottom of our community update for this week: https://medium.com/@Qtum/qtum-community-development-updates-august-7-ffd19d84e0ac

Just wanted to give a small update. We finally got Qtum to compile through Gitian. Basically, this means a few things

1. Creating release quality builds (ie, statically linked etc) is now just a trivial set of 3 commands
2. Ordinary users can produce these builds and they will have the exact same bytes and sha256 hash as what we produce. This allows you to confirm that we aren't adding anything extra
3. We will be setup for producing Windows, Linux, and OSX builds for testnet-2, including some packages and installers. This should make things a lot easier for users to get started
4. We now have functioning aarch64 and ARM builds, meaning...


You can run a full-node for Qtum on a raspberry pi without having to compile it yourself, and it is capable of staking, block creation, transaction auditing, smart contract interaction, etc. No Qt wallet though, command-line only.

This was addressed in February. Some people (primarily accounts created or which have suddenly become active in the past month or two here and on reddit) continue to bring this issue up. Read the Smith and Crown article if you want a fairly unbiased account of where it stands. Nothing has changed because it's he-said vs he-said. There is no consensus to come to regarding a "solution", or anything to "clear up". We've made our statement and he disagrees with it; there's nothing else to be done. Furthermore, all of the things that Smith and Crown have said would rectify this concern in their eyes have already been accomplished, such as financial transparency and our code being released with all of the things implemented we said we would. Additionally, Qtum has 3 co-founders, it's not just one person running the entire project. We manage ourselves in a way that it's impossible, even if 1 of us became corrupt, to just up and run away with the crowdfunded money. This is common sense in any blockchain project like this. It's not 2014 anymore, where everyone naively shares a single-sig wallet. And finally, that article that "hangs over our head" is alone.. Well, I guess there's also that funny guy on youtube that said all the code me and my team had worked on (and that ~8 teams built hackathon projects on in the past 24 hours) actually doesn't exist. I literally LOL'd when I watched that just at the pure irony and timing of it.

Qtum actually is compatible with ERC20 already (I deployed an ERC20 token to the testnet chain 2 days ago in fact). However, this ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain is only so that people can freely withdraw and exchange their Qtum without being stuck to the exchange that they participated in the crowdsale with. This is also the only way that we can enable people to trade Qtum on exchanges outside of the ones who hosted the crowdsale. So, we expect to be adding more exchanges very soon including some western ones. In September when the mainnet is released we will swap all of the ERC20 tokens over to be actual mainnet Qtum tokens

Anyone interested in a binary OSX wallet can download it on our Release Page. Please report any problems found with either the Windows or the OSX wallet

I don't know enough about Typescript and it's improvements, but for javascript at least, I wouldn't want to trust millions of dollars to some code written in Javascript. Similar to Solidity there are just too many pitfalls and ways to write code that looks clear and concise but has unexpected behavior. If you want a laugh, watch this "wat" lightning talk (it covers Javascript 1 minute in) to see what I mean https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Yes, this is what I'm seeing as well. There's no good language really built for this yet

Interesting. I figured most people would want a particular language that has more of an emphasis on safety, like Haskell or Rust or something

I'm wanting to gauge what people are thinking about smart contracts. I know a lot of people don't like Solidity, but if you had a magic box that could support any programming language for smart contracts, what language would you choose and why?

September as always

I'm sure marketing will want to do a more formal release, but heads up that we now have a compiled Windows version of the Qtum Sparknet wallet. It's available on the release page here: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/tag/testnet-sparknet

Please report these PMs and any future PMs of this nature. Whoever is doing this spamming was not asked on our behalf and it makes people annoyed with us. Whoever is spamming with all these PMs should be banned

How are the results of the lottery authenticated on the blockchain? What stops me from publishing fake lotto numbers and rewarding myself as a winner?

The consensus algorithm is pretty much the same as  Blackcoin's PoSv3 right now, except for a few minor parameter changes. MPoS (which has been delayed until the 2nd testnet now) changes the reward structure of PoS however so that block rewards are spread out over multiple blocks. The end result of this being that it makes it more expensive to attack Qtum, as you can't just mine blocks with malicious/slow transactions and then get all the fees back, now you must share those fees with other stakers.

I was able to login to my account. The whole UI is in Chinese though. They provided a guide for what buttons to push though: https://qtum.bizhongchou.com/guide.pdf

I had another coin in between that I was designing from scratch (internal name was Earlzcoin. I think I announced some of my plans somewhere on bitcointalk). Anyway, it had too many design flaws and was way too much work for just 1 person. I was pretty much out of the crypto game when Patrick approached me about Qtum's core idea, and everything just kinda took off from there. Funny enough, I've been skimming through my old design docs for Earlzcoin and looking at how the goals can be accomplished in Qtum. One of the cool ones is "recurring transactions". With smart contracts, this is suddenly not a hard problem. It's pretty exciting to integrate some of my "dream designs" into Qtum as a real world application

Which scam? Here's what I found he appeared to accurately spot from a cursory scan: Cryptsy, everything concerning that Leroy guy, GAW/Butterfly Labs, maybe 5-10 other tiny ICOs I'd never heard of and never seemed to gain much steam

Things he spewed vitrol about but is still undetermined: Legends Room (although he's calmed down on them now that they seem close to potentially proving they aren't a scam), Bitland

And things he predicted wrong: Bitgold/Goldmoney (he attacked them similar to us, and they're still kicking and seem legit 2 years after all of his trolling), AMT(oh wait, he apologized for that one after a few months of trolling)

I personally wonder where he was when I was still in the scam spotting business. I don't recall ever seeing or hearing about him or his primary alter-ego (though I don't keep track of his 20+ sock puppet accounts). He has actually "spotted scams" very few times, because he mostly sticks to only a few different projects (Leroy was his favorite) and off-topic posts. Seems all he does is try to dox whoever he somehow finds out about (seriously Gleb, who tells you about these projects? Why only these projects and not the many other obvious scams on BCT that you've failed to warn the community about?), cherry pick anything he can find on the internet supporting his case, makes ridiculous assumptions, then posts it all in his humorous ranting style with lots of memes, and finally alerts his friends/sock puppets that he posted so that they can back him up and legitimize his assumptions. I guess the upside to his trolling here is at least he's been fairly clean in this thread and not talking about raping people like in his Leroy and (pre-apology) AMT threads.

Well, good to know Gleb is an expert in China and all modern Chinese culture and social media practices. Remind me again, how many weeks have you spent in China to get all this knowledge?

Anyway, for those not in the know (including myself to some extent), WeChat is pretty unbelievably big. WeChat accounts for 30% of all mobile internet time spent in China, and Chinese people spend on average 90 minutes per day on WeChat. It has ~800M daily users (most of which are Chinese)... For a western comparison, Facebook has 1.2B monthly users (couldn't find a good daily number). Everyone here talks about how Facebook wants to become the portal to the internet, but WeChat has already successfully done that in China. WeChat has mini-apps and such, as well as handling money etc. If you have a phone with only WeChat installed in China, you're prepared for about 95% of what life throws at you. Most people in China don't bother with laptops, it's all about phones and mobile access. I've tried learning some Chinese (both speaking and typing), and it blew my mind how easy Chinese is to type out on a phone. To me the Android and iOS Chinese keyboards are a lot easier than a traditional PC keyboard (with Window's built in pinyin thing). Anyway, all this to say that trying to understand the culture from outside without having seen how people there interact and without having learned any of the language is difficult. I know when I visited there for the first time it was an absolute culture shock, even with all the reading and such I did beforehand.

Our plans to integrate smart contracts with WeChat is also driven by how large it is, and we think this will ultimately propel us into mainstream usage in China, allowing app developers to integrate blockchain technology into the readily accessible WeChat mini-app market

We also have a Chinese forum available at: https://forum.qtum.org/category/11/%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E4%BA%A4%E6%B5%81%E5%8C%BA (because the development updates are very technical, and occur every week, they are not typically translated, though our community updates and other big picture type stuff is)