[ANN] (QTUM) - A Scalable Smart Contract Platform w/ Proof of Stake

[TomThumb]

Look at the posters on the wall. Steve Jobs - who had NO QUALIFICATIONS IN ANYTHING AND NEVER ACHIEVED ANYTHING IN LIFE - juxtaposed next to Albert Einstein, a real genius type, who laughed at being called a genius.

The fact that the Qtum team can't tell the difference between an idiot who got lucky in life and a real genius says it all! The fact that they think they're geniuses themselves tells you to sell!  

Just one article because I don't have time to educate fools:

https://www.businessinsider.in/Steve-Jobs-played-no-role-at-all-in-designing-the-Apple-I-or-Apple-II-computers-Woz-says/articleshow/48781381.cms

From "Apple Confidential 2.0" by Owen W. Linzmayer: "Raskin [a computer scientist] tried convincing Jobs to go see the wonderful stuff at Xerox PARC [such as their desktop user interface], but...Jobs considered Raskin a 'shithead who could do no good' so he ignored Raskin's recommendation."

"Jobs' resignation didn't appease Apple. On September 23, the company filed a suit against Jobs and Page, enjoining them from using any proprietary information and charging Jobs with dereliction of his duties as chairman. The suit was ludicrous. Before his resignation, Jobs was considered an incompetent manager with little technical skill, but once he departed he suddenly became a major threat to the well-being of Apple? Realizing the suit only gave Jobs credibility, Apple quietly settled out of court in January 1986.

"With Jobs out of the way, Sculley led Apple through its most prosperous times, helping grow the business from $600 million in net sales when he joined in 1983 to almost $8 billion a decade later."

[alicea]

The Qtum Foundation reports its financial expenditures quarterly for transparency and openness with the community. This report covers the second quarter of 2020.

https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-foundations-second-quarter-expenditures-f5ec123b6f28

[Qtum]

Stake-A-Thon — Qtum Testnet Offline Staking

Please join us for the Stake-A-Thon on Qtum Testnet and try out all the new features of Offline Staking. Sign up at https://stake-a-thon-test.qtum.org/

The Stake-A-Thon will offer three categories for using Offline Staking to win prizes:

•      Address Delegation — delegate your address to a super staker
•      Pool Delegation — delegate your address to a pool super staker
•      Super Staker — run a Super Staker to accept delegated addresses

The Stake-A-Thon will run from July 25th to August 24th with prizes of 10 QTUM given for each of the categories daily, 930 QTUM in all. During registration, participants will provide their Qtum Mainnet address to receive the prizes, but otherwise the Stake-A-Thon will operate on Qtum Testnet, with free Test coins available from the faucet or the Qtum test team.

Read all about the Stake-A-Thon and join at https://stake-a-thon-test.qtum.org/



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[Qtum]

Qtum’s Hard Fork at Block 680,000 (August 28) Launching Offline Staking

https://blog.qtum.org/qtums-hard-fork-at-block-680-000-august-28-92177e80d886

Qtum recently released a new version of the full node Qtum Core Wallet v0.19.1. This update adds the Offline Staking function which will be an upgrade to the consensus protocol which requires a hard fork scheduled at a block height of 680,000, with an estimated date of August 28, 2020. No new coins will be created by the hard fork.

Read more https://blog.qtum.org/qtums-hard-fork-at-block-680-000-august-28-92177e80d886


Stake-A-Thon: https://stake-a-thon-test.qtum.org/en
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[Qtum]

Development Updates (July 21 - 27)

https://qtum.org/en/post/development-updates-july-21-27

Qtum Core

Qtum core updates normally consist of Qtum Improvement Proposals. These QIPs are generated by both our developers and the community and in some cases requests from enterprise users. Our developers evaluate the impact of each QIP and work on high priority QIPs. All bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been issued to the core project will be listed here.

•      Qtum Core v0.19.1 Mandatory Update

Infrastructure for Qtum

•      Continued work on Janus

Qtum Neutron & x86 Virtual Machine

Qtum Neutron is the infrastructure to support new virtual machines and the first will be the x86 virtual machine allowing smart contract development in C, Rust and other languages. The EVM will continue, but the x86 VM will allow easy creation of smart contracts using safe, well-known, mature languages and tools, and also provide a new state memory model using DeltaDB

•      Continued work on Neutron

Lightning Network

•      No update for this period

Qtum SDK

QtumJ is BitcoinJ ported to the Qtum blockchain protocol. The BitcoinJ library is a Java implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, which allows it to maintain a wallet and send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core. It comes with full documentation and some example apps showing how to use it.

GitHub: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtumj

Qtum Explorer & Wallets

The Qtum Explorer is our blockchain explorer that is used for viewing transaction details on the Qtum blockchain. The primary blockchain explorer site is qtum.info. We frequently release updates to both explorer and the web wallet sites. Additionally, you’ll find information regarding the official Qtum Electrum wallet and support/feature updates to hardware wallets or other interesting services/products

Qtum.info Explorer

Qtum.Info, as the official blockchain browser of Qtum, mainly provides information such as network status, transaction records, data indicators of blockchain and visual charts. Qtum users, exchanges, wallets, mining pools, and other commonly used data service tools.

•      Minor updates made to the UI & API
•      Added delegations https://testnet.qtum.info/address/qSYKTVSS7VVZvZsDbztY7kUxq7aKNnoRuN/

Electrum Wallet

•      Updated Electrum Wallet v4.0.2 Released

Mobile Wallet

•      Working on iOS & Android versions
•      Check the Google Play Store for the "Qtum Wallet" published by the Qtum Foundation
•      Official website: https://qtumeco.io/wallet

Web Wallet

•      Preparing for Network Upgrade

Qtum Testing

•      Public Testing for Qtum v0.19.1 has started - Qtum Testnet Warm-Up for Offline Staking starting soon!

Documentation

•      Qtum Super Staker Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfzzktJFbsY
•      How to Delegate QTUM for Offline Staking Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrB0cA_JPps

Qtum Telegram Channel: https://t.me/qtumofficial
Qtum Twitter: https://twitter.com/Qtum
Qtum Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QtumOfficial
Qtum Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qtum

[Qtum]

Development Updates (July 28 - August 3)

Qtum Core

Qtum core updates normally consist of Qtum Improvement Proposals. These QIPs are generated by both our developers and the community and in some cases requests from enterprise users. Our developers evaluate the impact of each QIP and work on high priority QIPs. All bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been issued to the core project will be listed here.

•      Qtum Core v0.19.1 Mandatory Update

Infrastructure for Qtum

•      Continued work on Janus

Qtum Neutron & x86 Virtual Machine

Qtum Neutron is the infrastructure to support new virtual machines and the first will be the x86 virtual machine allowing smart contract development in C, Rust and other languages. The EVM will continue, but the x86 VM will allow easy creation of smart contracts using safe, well-known, mature languages and tools, and also provide a new state memory model using DeltaDB.

•      Continued work on Neutron

Lightning Network

•      No update for this period

Qtum SDK

QtumJ is BitcoinJ ported to the Qtum blockchain protocol. The BitcoinJ library is a Java implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, which allows it to maintain a wallet and send/receive transactions without needing a local copy of Bitcoin Core. It comes with full documentation and some example apps showing how to use it.

•      GitHub: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtumj

Qtum Explorer & Wallets

The Qtum Explorer is our blockchain explorer that is used for viewing transaction details on the Qtum blockchain. The primary blockchain explorer site is qtum.info. We frequently release updates to both explorer and the web wallet sites. Additionally, you’ll find information regarding the official Qtum Electrum wallet and support/feature updates to hardware wallets or other interesting services/products

Qtum.info Explorer

Qtum.Info, as the official blockchain browser of Qtum, mainly provides information such as network status, transaction records, data indicators of blockchain and visual charts. Qtum users, exchanges, wallets, mining pools, and other commonly used data service tools.

•      Minor updates made to the UI & API
•      Added elegations https://testnet.qtum.info/address/qSYKTVSS7VVZvZsDbztY7kUxq7aKNnoRuN/

Electrum Wallet

•      Updated Electrum Wallet v4.0.2a1 Released

Mobile Wallet

•      Working on iOS & Android versions
•      Check the Google Play Store for the "Qtum Wallet" published by the Qtum Foundation
•      Official website: https://qtumeco.io/wallet

Web Wallet

•      Preparing for Network Upgrade

Qtum Testing

•      Public Testing for Qtum v0.19.1 has started - Qtum Testnet Warm-Up for Offline Staking starting soon!

Documentation

•      Qtum Super Staker Setup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfzzktJFbsY
  
•      How to Delegate QTUM for Offline Staking Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrB0cA_JPps

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Qtum Twitter: https://twitter.com/Qtum
Qtum Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QtumOfficial
Qtum Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qtum

[wkr]

great things happen in the project, qtum has a great team with great technology

[Qtum]

Stake-A-Thon Update #2

https://blog.qtum.org/stake-a-thon-update-2-8dfb1b3836f6

The Testnet Stake-A-Thon is a little over half-way through with two weeks left to go. Sign up now at https://stake-a-thon-test.qtum.org/en.

The Stake-A-Thon offers a first-look at Qtum offline staking protocol, currently running on testnet (https://testnet.qtum.info/) and coming to Qtum mainnet approximately 7:15 pm GMT on August 28 with a hard fork at block 680,000. Mainnet staking wallets should update now (https://qtumeco.io/wallet) to version 0.19.1: don’t be left behind by the hard fork!

Read more https://blog.qtum.org/stake-a-thon-update-2-8dfb1b3836f6


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[Qtum]

Development Updates (August 4 - 10)

See the weekly development updates at https://qtum.org/en/post/development-updates-august-4-10


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[Qtum]

Why Qtum is Better for Building DeFi

https://blog.qtum.org/why-qtum-is-better-for-building-defi-f9725fb7ee4a

Overnight, it seems that everyone is talking about DeFi (Decentralized Finance). The combination of traditional finance and decentralized blockchain networks are creating a wonderful revolution. However, at this time of rapid development, the entire DeFi ecosystem still faces various constraints and challenges. One of the most important challenges is that the existing blockchain infrastructure cannot support complex DeFi applications. Whether it is virtual machines, TPS, fees, or on-chain governance, there are many limitations.

Qtum launched with its mainnet in September 2017. It is the industry’s first smart contract platform based on the same UTXO model as Bitcoin. After 3 years of technological iteration, Qtum has gradually developed a variety of unique technical and environmental characteristics, which are entirely suitable for building DeFi projects. This article will discuss this in detail.

Read more at https://blog.qtum.org/why-qtum-is-better-for-building-defi-f9725fb7ee4a



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[Qtum]

Stake-A-Thon Update #3 – Web Wallet

https://blog.qtum.org/stake-a-thon-update-3-web-wallet-70d688fd68da

The Testnet Stake-A-Thon is in the home stretch to finish on August 24, and you can still sign up at https://stake-a-thon-test.qtum.org/en.

The Stake-A-Thon offers a way to exercise the Qtum offline staking protocol, currently on testnet, and coming to Qtum mainnet approximately 7:15 pm GMT on August 28 with a hard fork at block 680,000. Mainnet staking wallets should update now to version 0.19.1: don’t be left behind by the hard fork!

The Qtum Web Wallet https://qtumwallet.org/ now provides offline staking address delegation capability. With the ability to Restore from Ledger (on mainnet) this will provide an easy way to delegate addresses from the Ledger hardware wallet. In addition, this versatile wallet allows restoring from mobile or WIF private key, allowing address delegation from various mobile wallets.

Read more https://blog.qtum.org/stake-a-thon-update-3-web-wallet-70d688fd68da



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[Qtum]

Qtum Foundation Announces Grant Program for DeFi Developers

https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-foundation-announces-grant-program-for-defi-developers-d34bcb5e7198

A grant program of $1 million (and up to $5 million) has been provisioned by the Qtum Foundation to foster DeFi innovation and development on Qtum’s open-source blockchain. The newly launched DeFi Developer Support Program will provide funding to approved teams that are knowledgeable of coding Solidity smart contracts. The Qtum Chain Foundation will provide corresponding development funding for each approved applicant or team according to their development goals.

Read more https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-foundation-announces-grant-program-for-defi-developers-d34bcb5e7198



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[Qtum]

Development Updates (August 11 - 17)

See the weekly development updates https://qtum.org/en/post/development-updates-august-11-17



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[speedM]

QTUM will sometimes be listed on the coinbase?

[Qtum]

Qtum Stake-A-Thon Update

See the wrap-up for the Testnet Stake-A-Thon https://medium.com/@Qtum/stake-a-thon-update-4-2d656c8c929



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[BayAreaCoins]

FreeBitcoins has launched Qtum exchange market paired with Bitcoin:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Qtum

Qtum will be added to our faucet and swap tool shortly as well.

Thanks!

[Qtum]

Development Updates (August 11 - 17)

See the weekly development updates: https://qtum.org/en/post/development-updates-august-18-24



Qtum Telegram Channel: https://t.me/qtumofficial
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[Bitcoin_Joker]

FreeBitcoins has launched Qtum exchange market paired with Bitcoin:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Qtum

Qtum will be added to our faucet and swap tool shortly as well.

Thanks!

I see that the QTUM project is developing at a very good pace. I think this coin could be a good investment.

[bitcampaign]

FreeBitcoins has launched Qtum exchange market paired with Bitcoin:  https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/Bitcoin-Qtum

Qtum will be added to our faucet and swap tool shortly as well.

Thanks!

I see that the QTUM project is developing at a very good pace. I think this coin could be a good investment.

what makes you say this project is good and interesting, are you just making a post, do it to make the post even more quality, oh yes it's a new exchange freebitcoins.com I think it's a bitcoin and altcoin faucet site, unfortunately the exchange looks lonely , see the latest Qtum news now

[Bitcoin_Joker]

what makes you say this project is good and interesting, are you just making a post, do it to make the post even more quality, oh yes it's a new exchange freebitcoins.com I think it's a bitcoin and altcoin faucet site, unfortunately the exchange looks lonely , see the latest Qtum news now

I have been watching this project for a long time. I even bought QTUM coins at one time ... then I sold everything. Now I think that it is quite possible that "the Chinese ethereum" will manifest itself against the background of today's political reality and the situation in the world.