Hi Crys X
Thanks for the response, much appreciated.
I didn't know that you were involved with Quark.
Its good to know; I am a big admirer of your work at CWI, and I know that you have an interest in Cryptonite (XCN) and Sterlingcoin (SLG), which I also follow.
If you are engaged in the forthcoming upgrade I am sure it will go well.
Best of luck with all your endeavours.
Thanks for the kind words ...
I do see you around a lot in coins/projects of interest, Quark being one of them, as you also have been in the 'traps' for quite sometime.
But I/CWI am/are not involved in this project. I have personally had a soft spot for the coin and Algo since it's inception, so it is nice to see some work being done, even if I don;t agree with a all of it. Quark the coin and Algo has been a very successful experiment, and even though the coin itself survives, the original developers moved on to much bigger things, and left the coin to do it's thing, which as mentioned has been quite successful for it's original goals.
I used to carry a huge amount when we mined it in the early days with the AMD GPU's at the time when Wolf was building our internal miner. Since moving to nVidia a while back, our focus was still mining quark until the ASIC's came to play, which killed off a lot fo the Algos, including this one, making it a very difficult mining situation without farms of ASIC. We have a few, but only for testing/preference mining, as we still focus on GPU mining predominantly. Creating our own set of Algos, the first of which will be implemented very shortly in OZC as the experimental coin to adopt the new codebase and Algo. I think Quark itself does need a facelift, but some of the rebuild begs the questions that have been asked previously. Especially those questions that pertain to the Algo and coin setup itself (the codebase).
I will always keep an eye on the project, but will not interfere with the processes that have been taken, even though I don't totally agree with the path, it is a good one nonetheless.
The developers leading this progression seem to be doing reasonably well so far, and my simplest of advice will be just to take your time and go slow. There is no rush here, and no reason to infect their thinking with a deadline/rush mentality that can cause issues with the push of development. Like a wine, the code needs time to be developed and tested, and debugged then developed, tested and all over again
SLG is the project of our partner - Steven Saxton, and Pallas leading XCN is a good thing. We have now developed the miner for the 8+ GPU for XCN and have been testing it internally, and it is working reasonably well (the ccminer internal fork - CWIgmcc). Now for the optimization of the Algo
Apologies if some of this is off topic, but you will see us around here. Just usually in the background.
BTW - if we can compile this wallet under Fedora 27/28 x64 or CentOS 7 x64 - we would gladly make it publicly available.
#crysx
