Someone has suggested DI sold out of his qrk position and has been trying to buy back in as low as possible, hence driving away core members etc.
If DI holds a large amount of QRK then he must be motivated to see qrk succeed. I have no idea why he would want the core members like qrkfx, coinmama and vic to leave or why he talks to them like he does.
Let's see, i mean it seems impossible to tell if he really believes what he says and does are for the benefit of qrk long term or not?
I suspect DI does want qrk to succeed but wants to do it "his way". Anything not exactly "his way" is firmly met with a wall of less than diplomatic criticism. More of a personally trait than him trying to drive the price of qrk down. Although if this kind of attitude towards other core members really does make them want out then that can lead to the same thing.
DI why not post your qrk address so we can see you're on board with qrk. Seems like a conspiracy theory that you're anti qrk until you can buy back in but let's see. If you have a 100k qrk wager i guess you have a few more hundred k stashed away somewhere right?
QRKfx was a big loss to the qrk community in my opinion. His ideas and drive were very interesting and i think he had proven without doubt he was a loyal qrk supporter. The fact more people are not concerned about people like this leaving the community is worrying. Vic not being around is again worrying, he was the public driving force on this board for a long time.
The problem with qrks core member seems to be that they are very sensitive and not robust enough to push through their ideas to the community clearly. QRKfx's paper had some VERY interesting ideas but these were just pushed aside by simple negative remarks that really had nothing to back them up. The core members should have formed a stable leadership and put in place a system where their suggested actions are put forward to the community and then analysed before being actioned. We can not allow negative (or positive) comments to have weight without analysis it just makes no sense to say you do or don't approve without a valid reason that can be seen as logical to everyone else.
So let's get on with the leadership side of things.
Let's get the core members that have proven beyond doubt they are qrk supporters through hard work together and make all discussion public on the thread. Next step is to get some funds together to attract a new developer and project manager. If you look at 'hyper' they have a public development pot that is held by escrow for development and marketing purposes only.
Don't be shy guys if you have worked on qrk projects and are pro qrk put yourself forward to be part of the foundation. Once formed and we have some clear leadership (people that dare to suggest direct and purpose without feeling they are being bossy) the community can get behind some of these ideas and we can work towards getting some things done.
Anyone should be able to join the foundation so long as we know their motives are clearly pro qrk. The only way to really know this is to see they own a large amount of qrk. I mean sure a whale could buy up a ton of qrk to appear pro qrk when really his motives are anti qrk, but that is less likely and for now i can see no better way of testing qrk loyalty. It seems as soon as someone does not agree with someone else they are called trolls, shills, etc. This really would be less likely if they had a 500k quark in their wallet.
Sitting here waiting to be picked up by some huge multinational company as their chosen currency is not working out too well. Let's build a few services out ourselves that use qrk and expand their user base then perhaps other companies and services will take note.
Let's also analyse( NOT just say it sounds good or bad) the ideas that have previously been put forward to help solve some of qrks perceived issues.
1. POS -
Is POS proven to be less secure than POW only. What about the hybrid pos +pow? where are the experts sunnyking, rat4 etc to really get to the bottom of this issue.
we don't want to inflate the minting too much .... better still not at all.
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There are many options/variations available here.
After reading through qrkfx's paper one part i like was the taxing side of things. This gives a lot of incentive to help secure the chain.
We could cut off pow altogether and go full POS with the same inflation rate. However that won't be incentive enough. What though if we introduced a small tax on those that do not help secure the chain by having their wallet open for staking. That tax can be either sent to the foundation to fund projects/developers/services or given as random superblock rewards to staking wallets. I was against random superblocks for mining because it made no sense to burn electricity for a possible reward. However, as miner i have some machines running or at least my laptop full time anyway so why not leave my qrk wallet staking to avoid the small tax and to earn some qrk and possibly a super pos block.
There can be many variations including pos+pow ....whatever we like.
The only issue i see is POS seems touchy about working with the qrk algo. I know a couple of coins tried it and it was not a huge success.
Is the qrk algo even important to qrk anymore? i mean look at all the qrk clones they are dead. The algo doesn't mean all that much it would seem, especially when the POW phase is pretty much over. So what is the big deal about switching qrk at this point to another algo? lets discuss not scream that is profanity to suggest such a thing.
Of course this all may seem like a terrible idea to you, so let's hear why exactly it would be so bad. Let's analyse the idea in public. If it turns out to be a bad idea and we can all logically see why then we just forget it.
2 - the superblock (not mining superblocks) - the one off 10% or whatever block held by escrows and to be released only upon community consultation for projects and services already completed.
Let's think of all the possible positives and negatives and weight them up.
3. The POB or QRK only ipo companion coin - the coin that will allow features and experimentation we do not want coded into qrk itself - that could provide the funding for services and projects that can be jointly shared with qrk if we as a community choose it to be so. It could also be used as a tool to bring back to the community those investors that have bunches of qrk but want no involvement with the qrk project.
again let's weigh the possible positives and negatives of this.
4 ROI projects - what projects , who will manage then? what will be their incentive? i like this idea of building out our own services or uses for qrk but how to get those qrk whales interested in investing?
If none of the above meet your fancy then what do you suggest for qrk - leave it as it is and see what happens? hopefully it will for some reason become more desirable to investors or businesses for some unknown reason in the future?
Before any of that though we need some leadership and public leadership at that. I notice on all communities the coin dies when there is no clearly defined leadership. When new leadership is on the scene the community will rally around this and things get done.
- Vic is 100% with Quark he took an 80+ hour job i still email him.
- Qrkfx and Coinmama choose to leave explain what they did for Quark?
- your long list of solutions means Quark is broken right?
take my Bet? Bitcoin is surely the winner here if Quark is not better than Bitcoin you win easy Quark
take the bet? ------------------------------------------------------------------------
here is what we are looking at:
- C Bloc (bounty up 50k)
- Merge mine (in the works )
- Mini BLockchain ( if ever its being tested )
- continued assessment of the best CPoW algo. i'm not going to be rude, (as i've bumped the threat enough)
but that list you just posted looks childish next to what is actually happening ; C bloc - Merge etc.
so of course there are unfortunately two choices (they are both bad)
1. the people that came up with that list are intellectually challenged (possible)
2. they are meant to be "disruptors" but are very bad at that job and should consider car park attendant employment ? (saying "i'm reacting" doesn't mean you are good at your job, it means you didn't achieve anything)
If qrk stays at the price it is now for 10 years and bitcoin drops 0.1% is not essentially a huge positive for qrk. Bitcoin for me is way over valued already compared to qrk. ALthough that does not mean that qrk is in an ideal position. Something need not be broken for it to lose against something better. Bitcoin would obviously still be viewed as the better coin if it dropped 50% and qrk stayed the same for the next 10 years. I see the bet as pointless for that exact reason. Yes qrk may be reaching it's bottom for now whilst others have only now started to slip who can say, this is speculation.
The list posted looks childish compared to c - block? explain how exactly? let's get specific. Tell me exactly how c - block will solve any of qrks issues.
I have said already that the entire concept of c - block to me won't work. Why would anyone donate for hash whales to take it all? it makes no sense.
Let's forget the car park attendant for now. Let's hear specific reasons how the c - block could possibly solve any of qrks issues.
The issues as i see them - issues don't essentially mean qrk is broken it means these are areas for improvement. I mean qrk could become the number 1 coin tomorrow if walmart decided to use it. However let's not assume this kind of thing will happen to qrk.
1. no funding for an active developer, no funding for project managers, building services etc.
2. a lot of the qrk investors sit outside of the crypto community and are not involved or supporting the community in anyway
3. qrk is seen to have died off, there is no leadership and no new blood with their btc coming in to qrk. Well, not that is visible through this thread anyway.
4. pow rewards not sufficient to secure the chain
5. competition with funding, larger communities that are drawn by new hype and features extracting btc and support from qrk
6. a fragmented community with no unity.
merge mining with what coin is in the works?
I didn't notice any community consultation take place so i doubt this is happening anytime soon.
As i say, let's get specific. Let's analyse the possible positives and negatives of all suggestions that have been made.
No point saying the list was made by retards without explaining the negatives. Once you expose the negatives then we can safely assume the list was made by retards but not until then.
Pick any of the points.
POS, Superblock, POB companion coin/ qrk only ipo,
Then demonstrate the obvious negative effects each will have on qrk if implemented and why.
