[ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade

[reRaise]

The ShaqFu guys have been busy with coordinating the ~1000 perks for the last little while so haven't wanted to bother them too much. Just sent a quick email to inquire and will update everyone soon as I have a response.

re: QEX - the exchange is real, and I've used it a bunch. Some bugs that they're working out right now but I'm optimistic.

I received this a few days ago from ShaqFu - sounds like another little bit before the perks kick in:

"Hello all,

I am aware of how long it has been since the campaign ended. I know that there are lots of you who are still awaiting delivery of your perks. I would like to ask once again that you remain patient while we get through the immense number of items that we are having to produce and deliver to people. There are only so many of us who can focus on this task and it is simply going to take time.

Due to the current basketball playoffs we have very little of Shaq's time to work on the perks that he himself must be involved in. This is due to change in a couple of weeks.

I understand that some people may be frustrated but I can only assure you that I am doing my absolute best here. We have always said that we will deliver the perks as soon as we possibly can. Everyone will get everything they purchased. It just takes time.

Thank you to all of you that continue to wait patiently. I look forward to fulfilling everybody's orders.

Best wishes,

Oliver"

Good to know, Shaq himself talking about quark will definitely boost it

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[jonesT]

Some days ago, mintcoin began to discuss a bank creation. Users deposit money and receive interests after one month.

It is just the same done by shareX with sharecoin, but still is a good idea.

Please, think in a way to pay interests for Quark too. Price is low and users need incentive.

[digitalindustry]

hey just a verification post - i'm finally on Reddit (yeah i got with the 1800s)

this is my user _

http://www.reddit.com/user/_k_digi/

_k_digi

not to be confused with the rapper of course -  i will add this to my sig also -

so if anyone want to come and troll me  i miss that a little .....

PREMINE !

[gondel]

Hi,
Why is the price of quark going down nowadays? I was giving a huge hope to this coin last year and even mined and worked for this coin.
BR

[dragonseer]

Hi,
Why is the price of quark going down nowadays? I was giving a huge hope to this coin last year and even mined and worked for this coin.
BR

My guess would be that it is because Bitcoin is moving up again, and some people have sold Quark rather than wait to see it emerge as a proper competitor to BTC. At the moment it seems Quark won't rise until there is some resolution regarding merge mining, PoS, pool innovation or other means to secure network hashrate long term.

[kitaco]

Hi,
Why is the price of quark going down nowadays? I was giving a huge hope to this coin last year and even mined and worked for this coin.
BR

-No incentive to mine. When putting 6MH/s into Quark nets you sub cents per day, you're not even paying enough per keystroke to type a bash script or batch file.
-Immature incompetent community running Quark
-Lack of ideas
-No buy or sell support/no volume
-Exchanges removing Quark realizing it's wasting web space, memory, and cpu cycles
-Price is $0.016 and hasn't had a noticeable spike in months

You saw three teams move through Quark. The first one was pushed away by Kolin and though some of the teams ideas were poor, they were intelligent and professional. You had a second team start up in late December and through January in which a lot of things started on course for the future but problems were still ran into with people being in the wrong positions of power and just pure foolishness. Now you are left with the rejects who got in after everyone who could have actually done something useful for Quark, left. This new team holds for seemingly no reason.

There's nothing game changing left. There's no actual reason to buy into Quark unless you want to throw $10 in and hold for a gamble and hope some miracle (you may find a unicorn before this) comes along and makes Quark a few hundred dollars each. Before that miracle happened, you'd have to find a way to remove quarkfx, yellowblackbird, cashmen, mcphervi, digitalindustry (kolin), james, and kingsqrk from any positions of power and just completely restart the community. I would have added coinmama, but regardless of how much she just goes and goes and goes (sometimes annoyingly, but that may be her secret!), at least she has proven that she can actually get things done and deliver exactly what she had promised - on time AND follow through.

I would be surprised if anyone knew C++ (or even basic HTML) in the current community, meaning only Max could contribute to the actual code and any new features and requests would be either delayed or not added at all. I'm pretty sure Max is gone, so nothing can get done unless it is hard forked like Frozen or FairQuark.

Please, reply to this calling me a troll. It will prove an ongoing point. I am predicting an absolute mess of a response from digitalindustry within 24 hours.

**Any other coins want to see who they shouldn't ever allow on their dev/marketing team? Visit http://quark.dropswitch.net/ and shun everyone except numbers 3-4-17-19-21. Make sure to look at the "these didn't make it to the top" section as well.

[reRaise]

^^ And who are you with your new account?

Also dafuq you talking about, the new team is the best team quark ever had you hating piece of shit.

[cryptohunter]

He is obviously not a newbie, he knows a LOT about quarks community.

I disagree 100% with what he says about VIC and DI. They have worked hard for QRK.

Let's be serious most of the last wave have sunk,  wdc, dgc, mec, etc all the strong ones from the last wave.

However qrk is the only one that has some good things planned for the future.

QRK does need some innovation fast though. It seems a LOT of people do want anon features. This and increased security of the chain should be the focus now.

Of course bringing on ROI projects in another way forward.

[Relnarien]

I still believe that PoS is not compatible with the ideologies initially promoted by Quark. However, since a lot of Quark's supporters are very outspoken regarding its implementation, please allow me to suggest a compromise between the yay and nay sides of the discussion.

As far as I can tell, there are 2 primary concerns regarding the implementation of PoS into Quark. The first concern is regarding the security it offers as opposed to PoW. A lot of people are against PoS because it supposedly exposes a coin to a 51% attack more than a pure PoW coin would. Personally, I am not convinced with the arguments presented concerning this issue, but that is irrelevant. My suggestion will assume that a PoW/PoS hybrid coin is just as secure as a pure PoW coin, regardless of what various whitepapers and documents say. If you cannot see past that issue, then you may skip the rest of this post. My idea tackles only the second concern which is that PoS would mostly benefit large stakeholders and direct most of the newly generated coins to those same people.

Currently, all PoS implementations reward stakeholders who find a block with a percentage of their stake. What I suggest we do differently would be to reward a stakeholder with only (exactly) 1 Quark. 1 Quark is the current reward for a block found via PoW, so the amount should be no major concern. Additionally, the average time time for finding PoS blocks should be at least three times faster than the average time for finding PoW blocks (i.e., increase mining target time to 90 seconds). That way, mining could still be considered a viable option to get Quarks for people without large stakes. With this proposed PoS system, the inflation rate could be maintained without completely relying on miners to secure the blockchain.

[coinerer]

I still believe that PoS is not compatible with the ideologies initially promoted by Quark. However, since a lot of Quark's supporters are very outspoken regarding its implementation, please allow me to suggest a compromise between the yay and nay sides of the discussion.

As far as I can tell, there are 2 primary concerns regarding the implementation of PoS into Quark. The first concern is regarding the security it offers as opposed to PoW. A lot of people are against PoS because it supposedly exposes a coin to a 51% attack more than a pure PoW coin would. Personally, I am not convinced with the arguments presented concerning this issue, but that is irrelevant. My suggestion will assume that a PoW/PoS hybrid coin is just as secure as a pure PoW coin, regardless of what various whitepapers and documents say. If you cannot see past that issue, then you may skip the rest of this post. My idea tackles only the second concern which is that PoS would mostly benefit large stakeholders and direct most of the newly generated coins to those same people.

Currently, all PoS implementations reward stakeholders who find a block with a percentage of their stake. What I suggest we do differently would be to reward a stakeholder with only (exactly) 1 Quark. 1 Quark is the current reward for a block found via PoW, so the amount should be no major concern. Additionally, the average time time for finding PoS blocks should be at least three times faster than the average time for finding PoW blocks (i.e., increase mining target time to 90 seconds). That way, mining could still be considered a viable option to get Quarks for people without large stakes. With this proposed PoS system, the inflation rate could be maintained without completely relying on miners to secure the blockchain.

Interesting.

In other words, every active(and connected to the network) wallet will be rewarded with the same amount of PoS (=1) (for the same time of connectivity to the network) no matter how many QRKs are in it. Is that your PoS idea?

[Relnarien]

I still believe that PoS is not compatible with the ideologies initially promoted by Quark. However, since a lot of Quark's supporters are very outspoken regarding its implementation, please allow me to suggest a compromise between the yay and nay sides of the discussion.

As far as I can tell, there are 2 primary concerns regarding the implementation of PoS into Quark. The first concern is regarding the security it offers as opposed to PoW. A lot of people are against PoS because it supposedly exposes a coin to a 51% attack more than a pure PoW coin would. Personally, I am not convinced with the arguments presented concerning this issue, but that is irrelevant. My suggestion will assume that a PoW/PoS hybrid coin is just as secure as a pure PoW coin, regardless of what various whitepapers and documents say. If you cannot see past that issue, then you may skip the rest of this post. My idea tackles only the second concern which is that PoS would mostly benefit large stakeholders and direct most of the newly generated coins to those same people.

Currently, all PoS implementations reward stakeholders who find a block with a percentage of their stake. What I suggest we do differently would be to reward a stakeholder with only (exactly) 1 Quark. 1 Quark is the current reward for a block found via PoW, so the amount should be no major concern. Additionally, the average time time for finding PoS blocks should be at least three times faster than the average time for finding PoW blocks (i.e., increase mining target time to 90 seconds). That way, mining could still be considered a viable option to get Quarks for people without large stakes. With this proposed PoS system, the inflation rate could be maintained without completely relying on miners to secure the blockchain.

Interesting.

In other words, every active(and connected to the network) wallet will be rewarded with the same amount of PoS (=1) no matter how many QRKs are in it. Is that your PoS idea?

Yes. The weight of the stake would only be used to determine which wallet finds the hash of the next PoS block. The block reward itself will be fixed at 1 Quark. The increased target time for finding PoW blocks is meant to add increased protection against any possible 51% attack in case the implementation of any PoS specification causes a significant reduction in total network hashrate . Alternatively, a 2PoS-1PoW block check could be enforced within the protocol. It would offer better protection than an increased target time for finding PoW blocks, but it would also take more time and effort to properly implement.

[techsolution]

after all pump and dump drk and xc fill be finished as bc and wc, quark will be back, also after asics will start x11 mining they will see x11 is useless, i have 28mh/s asic and working to set it up for x11, as i started i saw it is not really hard,

drk, xc pump will die asics will come so we will be back faster then we think

drk / xc is fake pumped by 20-30 bagholders, so stay away if u dont wanr to loose ur money

i support qrk and btq at this time because i only belive in cpu coins and full asis resistant

we will see x11 crash after asics will start, after i will finish my work on x11 asic will make it open source:)

[kitaco]

^^ And who are you with your new account?

Also dafuq you talking about, the new team is the best team quark ever had you hating piece of shit.

You are the epitome of Quark supporters  

[reRaise]

^^ And who are you with your new account?

Also dafuq you talking about, the new team is the best team quark ever had you hating piece of shit.

You are the epitome of Quark supporters  

Yeah i give harsh answers to hating losers like you and i only represent myself don't forget that. I agree that quarks network should be put more in a secure position, but if you come up with retarded comments bashing the current team which have done great you deserve such answers.

[dE_logics]

These kids have no idea about PoS.

They're realize once a PoS coin will be killed.

[digitalindustry]

Hi,
Why is the price of quark going down nowadays? I was giving a huge hope to this coin last year and even mined and worked for this coin.
BR

-No incentive to mine. When putting 6MH/s into Quark nets you sub cents per day, you're not even paying enough per keystroke to type a bash script or batch file.
-Immature incompetent community running Quark
-Lack of ideas
-No buy or sell support/no volume
-Exchanges removing Quark realizing it's wasting web space, memory, and cpu cycles
-Price is $0.016 and hasn't had a noticeable spike in months

You saw three teams move through Quark. The first one was pushed away by Kolin and though some of the teams ideas were poor, they were intelligent and professional. You had a second team start up in late December and through January in which a lot of things started on course for the future but problems were still ran into with people being in the wrong positions of power and just pure foolishness. Now you are left with the rejects who got in after everyone who could have actually done something useful for Quark, left. This new team holds for seemingly no reason.

There's nothing game changing left. There's no actual reason to buy into Quark unless you want to throw $10 in and hold for a gamble and hope some miracle (you may find a unicorn before this) comes along and makes Quark a few hundred dollars each. Before that miracle happened, you'd have to find a way to remove quarkfx, yellowblackbird, cashmen, mcphervi, digitalindustry (kolin), james, and kingsqrk from any positions of power and just completely restart the community. I would have added coinmama, but regardless of how much she just goes and goes and goes (sometimes annoyingly, but that may be her secret!), at least she has proven that she can actually get things done and deliver exactly what she had promised - on time AND follow through.

I would be surprised if anyone knew C++ (or even basic HTML) in the current community, meaning only Max could contribute to the actual code and any new features and requests would be either delayed or not added at all. I'm pretty sure Max is gone, so nothing can get done unless it is hard forked like Frozen or FairQuark.

Please, reply to this calling me a troll. It will prove an ongoing point. I am predicting an absolute mess of a response from digitalindustry within 24 hours.

**Any other coins want to see who they shouldn't ever allow on their dev/marketing team? Visit http://quark.dropswitch.net/ and shun everyone except numbers 3-4-17-19-21. Make sure to look at the "these didn't make it to the top" section as well.

Ha someone is having a bad day... I'm only responding so you don't feel left out little man . : )

I love were Quark is , just love it right now.

Im loving the stress an controversy, it's all as it should be.

If you don't like it don't invest.

[koksokola]

what happened to qrk.suprnova.cc ?

[dentig]

where exchange quarks?

[reRaise]

where exchange quarks?

Cryptsy

[mcphervi]

QEX has now added QRK/BC, QRK/NMC, QRK/DOGE, QRK/DRK as well as BitQuark and QuarkBar - check it out at https://QEX.la!

Vic