Telling people to keep their wallet open won't work, it's not a fundamental solution. That's why satoshi gave them the incentive to mine and in quark there is no incentive to mine. I don't know how merge mining goes can someone explain, so basically people mine the new coin? but what does it have to do with quarks network security though?
You're keeping your wallet open so that you can VOTE and maintain a distributed power, that was Satoshi's initial idea which has later derailed into only tens of miner power houses to hold Bitcoin security, which at the moment they have the incentives to keep it but what'll happen when a few persons from those companies decide to switch the power upside down. Also what will happen when Bitcoin is no longer viable to mine ?
The point is that Quark has managed to take a step forward and keep the original principle alive and honestly Quark network is pretty much secure(aside from using automatic checkpoints and 9 algos which make it difficult to mine outside of CPU) just because it doesn't offer that extra incentive to mine it. Again, most PC now have 4-8 cores, keeping your wallet open with only 1 cpu core so you can vote its essential for Quark network so please stop discouraging others to do so. I'm sure that with the new improved wallet that is being worked quarkers will have an incentive to leave their wallets open and participate in voting whenever they can.
Because people won't mine for free or pay electricity costs and get nothing back in return, that's just how it is. When Bitcoin is mined out miners will get paid by the fees and Bitcoins price is a lot higher then quark. If Quark was above $1 then people would mine for money, nobody would mine Bitcoin if they couldn't earn money. With Bitcoin there is money to be made while mining and there are enough millionaire with ASICS and huge farms mining. But with quark there is no incentive at the moment. Would the block halving have taken years then quark would be along side Litecoin on top of coin market cap. Wy do you think people left, because they couldn't get money anymore from mining and mining is needed to secure the network. Quark can be attacked pretty easily if some with bad intention really would want to do it. So what are the solutions for securing the network, as far as i know is keeping wallets open which won't help, since we already tried and second merge mining. If everyone cares about securing the network shouldn't we all have to agree on merge mining? Unless there is another option.
Protecting your funds and making sure you vote will cost you ~$0.1 extra per month so when you're talking about "people won't mine for free" you're actually talking about specialized miners who only mine for profits not for principles. Its the same with corporations lobbyists which financially support whichever political side so they can obtain whatever laws which in turn will more cash to their business. We're not doing this so its good that mining Quark is not making some miners millionaires like its making those few powerhouse Bitcoin miners, Quark is about equality, if you want to vote you can do so because you're CPU vote counts as 1, unlike Bitcoin where the voting system is rigged in favor of the few rich miners. Hopefully with the new, improved Quark wallet that is being worked on at this moment quarkers will keep their wallets open and make their vote count whenever they have their PCs opened.
"If Quark was above $1" Well Im glad where the price is now because more people can buy them when its very low, the distribution will be even larger than it is now. Im hoping it will stay low for enough time so that many people have the chance to purchase a few at a fair price and be part of something really special like Quark.
"Quark can be attacked pretty easily if some with bad intention really would want to do it" Yes and some could also attack Bitcoin if they really wanted to, of course it will involve alot more money and influence but it doable. Quark has the checkpoints system that prevents the network to be really impacted by whatever attack is planned against, but again if enough energy is put into it anything is doable but we'll deal with that when it comes, lets not worry too much. By the time Quark is worth attacking we'll already have a good secured network with quarkers willing to leave their wallets open as foundation ground of the network security, so instead of spreading "mining is not profitable with Quark" please try to open people and spread some positive info like "keep your Quark wallet opened and use your 1 cpu core to vote".
I think this is simplification of the current algorithms, and not sure about possible problems with such algorithm simplification.
