New Qort Explorer: 

https://qort-explorer.traxo.me/

And a guide to setting up a node on the VPS: 

[How to setup a Qortal node on Vultr VPS - Ubuntu 18.04]
https://steemit.com/qort/@traxo/how-to-setup-a-qortal-node-on-vultr-vps-ubuntu-18-04

Understood, thanks but I still don't know what if someone will start xxxx nodes? What is the mechanism that protects against privatizing network by obtaining the majority of nodes?

Having problems to get the Qortal wallet to run. After I downloaded the current provided version in the opening thread I run the .sh file. According to the log file the wallet should run on port 12392 while the API run on port 12391. But when I call 127.0.0.1:12392 the page is not found while calling 127.0.0.1:12391 gives me a page which says I must enable API documentation in settings file. Any help?  

There is a lot of news, actually.


We have figured a way for QORA to have a TRUE DEX built atop its chain. Direct cross chain transfers with BTC and any BTC clone we choose can be done, and we're working that out now.


There is one slight thing that happened, and the UI dev seems to have gotten overwhelmed or something, so there are a couple options as far as doing either another or taking over development of the one he was doing. But I'm working that out now.


The exciting thing that I wanted to talk about was the DEX. We should have no need for an exchange, as we will be our own. We will not require any third party. We are also looking into the 0x project, to make use of their ledger they are building that will support DEX projects.


The vision I've seen for crypto overall in the future seems to be coming together. All things will have a token and all tokens will be directly tradeable with a worldwide p2p ledger. Beautiful.


The only thing holding us back right now is the new UI... so... there are a few options, one is that we can do the relaunch with the existing UI with a few other new features being the focus, then making QrowdFund into Qrowd, with a better UI, and a direct portal to BTC and LTC... the idea here is to utilize QORA only as a service token, allowing people to utilize the SmartContract crowdfund directly with BTC or LTC, not even realizing that QORA is being utilized in the back end. This can be done very easily and this is what we're doing on the back end side right now.


There is absolutely no issue with development other than the UI, which I'm finding a replacement for now, and am in communication with both a partner team, and a couple other potential new devs. One way or another we'll figure it out....


So basically what I would  like to know from the community, do we want to await the completion of the new UI, which will make everything much easier to use, or do we want to move forward without worrying about that, and simply focusing on other aspects until we get the UI back in development and moving towards completion?


The BackEnd is GREAT, and cat is doing AMAZING work for QORA, Gen 2 is already moving along quite well, and Gen 1 is ready on the back side, and we're adding the DEX support now.

After some research I decided that this project has a good future.It is going slowly,but surely.Unfortunately,I sold most of my coins months ago and remained with a small amount.Wanted to buy on Openledger,but Ronny doesn't respond(you have to withdraw manually).So, who selling Qora ,please pm.

I like the website, think it looks stunning! You've done a great thing!
And guys, do SONM, NEM, Hacken...sound familiar? What if I say that they have a new partner, called Paytomat. For end users it is a convenient way of spending their cryptocurrency and receiving loyalty awards. It is also going to start tocken sale in August. Want to join?


I have reached out to many exchanges, and have struck a potential partnership (we are about 95% sure at this point) with EasyDEX (New DEX built on top of Bitshares, similar to Crypto-Bridge and OpenLedger, but with easier to use UI and more features.)

I am hesitant to be listed on centralized exchanges, but will consider it if the opportunity presents itself on one that I believe will not be a scam in the future. Polo I don't like how they acted previously, however now that they're under new management I may consider asking them to re-list. Though I'm not 100% on that.

The main goal will be to have a DEX built ON QORA, that way QORA is totally independent of any exchange. There are a few ways to accomplish this that I have presented in idea form to the development internal chat on Discord.



I have setup a new permissions set in the QORA Discord, that will allow 'contributors' to see the internal development chat so that they know exactly what is being done on the project they decided to contribute to. If you would like to be a contributor, simply reach out to me on Discord and we can make that happen.

Cat is making amazing progress on the overall development, and I believe we have decided on what is necessary for the rebirth launch of Gen 1 and what will be moved on to Gen 2 development. At this point we're awaiting the UI to have some final completion on certain aspects prior to relaunching Gen 1. (I say 'relaunching' because it'll be the 'official' rebirth of the platform, since obviously the wallet is stable now and fully usable, Gen 1 rebirth will have the new Web UI with many beautiful enhancements, and a few other additions on top of the obvious stability of the db now and stability overall.)

There will be instruction on how to setup DNS to route to QORA hosted websites, more information on how exactly to setup a QORA website, and hopefully an overall increase in the simplicity of doing so. The new UI is very beautiful, will eventually have full replacement for the QORA AE, making it fully functional 'traditional' looking exchange, with charts, asks and bids, etc. It will be a sight that's for sure, I'm excited about it.



The improvements in Gen 2 will be incredible, and numerous. There is talk of SSL support, CNAME support, and even server side language and functionality support for QORA hosted websites. There will be incentivized content for Bloggers, and a totally new rewards system for a totally new MasterNode system, with proof of burn style mining, levelling system, and a system for multiple 'levels' of MasterNodes as well. The MasterNodes will have data storage functionality, and the QORA chain will be split into two chains, one storing transactional information, and another storing data. The transactional chain will also store hashes of the data. Data will be fully encrypted and compressed to ensure full use of the space, which could open itself up for an addition of a 'proof of storage' type algo to be involved in the mining.

The overall goal, will be to have the mining be possible on any device, truly. Not limited to high powered farms, etc. Also, the idea is that the higher level you get your account, the more influence and easier time mining your account has. This will open itself up for a truly fair voting system by way of the accounts that have put time and effort into levelling (burning their mined coins and putting out good content) and have exponentially lowered mining difficulty, are more than likely to be people. Especially once they get to the higher levels. As it simply will make no sense to mine on multiple accounts as a single person, less you're ONLY attempting to skew the metrics of the 'users' count... Which to me doesn't seem all that likely. It could actually end up with a truly fair and truly anonymous REAL voting system, that eventually could even be used to elect officials, etc. There could also end up being an 'ID' system tied to it for the people who decide that they'd like to use it that way. The posibilities are truly endless.

Generation 2 of QORA is going to be unlike anything anyone has ever seen before, truly incredible and one of a kind. I for one am very excited about it. There are multiple brand new ideas being implemented and created by the team, and built by our amazing developers. I think it will be a fun and exciting platform for people to not only make some extra money with, but build up and have fun making their accounts have more influence, make money putting good content on the network, and potentially even make money spotting bad content... I've been trying to figure out a way to make a system like that, where people who reported content that is agreed not something that the network would like to see on it, could be rewarded. But this requires some more thinking for sure.

Anyway, just wanted to come in and put up some more information for people, and explain the current situation. Things will be exciting to see as developments progress. It's an exciting time for QORA and crypto overall, and hopefully one where a lot of the scams will disappear, and solid projects like QORA will take their place and improve upon them.

QrowdFund (or Qrowd as I'm going to have it renamed to - 'come join the Qrowd!' is catchy ) - is a fully decentralized automated CrowdFunding platform built on QORA, which you can see here in its alpha stages built a long time ago... http://node4.qora.org:9090/qrowdfund



It is built using CIYAM SmartContract system built in QORA. It allows users to...

1. Post a project or idea they would like to have funded.

2. Post the amount they would need.

3. This creates a SmartContract running on top of QORA which owns the private keys to the wallet that the donations go to.

4. This SmartContract then either executes a payment to the starter if it gets fulfilled on the amount, or it REFUNDS ALL DONATORS AUTOMATICALLY, if the asked for amount is not reached.


I think this is a great starting 'main application' and will get a lot of use, no one else in the space has anything fully like it yet.

   
  Today we are pleased to announce Version 1 of our BitAsean Whitepaper. As we develop the mobile wallet, platform and working relationships in the months and years ahead we will update it to reflect our evolution. Though we published this in English so as to reach the largest possible audience of readers, Thai and Chinese versions of this paper will also follow in the not too distant future. We will also be notifying interested media and press of our detailed plans and road map as outlined in the whitepaper in the days ahead. We invite all of you to come grow with us. https://www.bitasean.org

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