"There is no buzz because people recognize the hashrate problem - not because we haven't hopped on POS or anonymity. "
that is simply incorrect in my opinion. ANON is the key word here, i see coins go x100 when mentioning working on it. Sure it's perhaps a fad and yes we don't want it as part of the core of qrk. However as i said before if you check out other anon options and we were working on those you would have seen qrk x 5 in price and attracting new blood into the qrk community and positivity for the future. Instead qrk loses time and time again to other communities. People like to have the latest and greatest thing in their coin. Not having it to some indicates falling behind and the coin dying out. All i hear on the board is qrk is dead. Yes if they bothered to get in touch and ask the core members what is happening they would see that is not the case. However from the outside it does look like there is no dev and no qrk team. This thread is almost silent..... new people coming to this board probably don't even notice there is a qrk whilst the lastest fad coins dominate page 1. Once these get sucked into one of those communities, their time and energy stays there.
QRK is working hard on things in the background, but we need a marketing team, dev team to support coding in new features, coding in our own exchange, qrk shop (in my opinion there was no point in the thunderclap without one) our own anon techniques and whatever else shows up.
Nobody will donate, nobody will work for nothing. The block rewards are too small now to bring new blood in the form of miners with falling price this is a death spiral. The only options is creating a development fund that should have been there since the start. Max and the other core members can't afford or don't have the incentive to code or work full time on qrk. A 30M block mined and kept public used only rewards for real services created is the best way forward. So let's create 1 super block held and managed by the foundation but the community also has a say how it is used.
Without a development pot you can be sure we are looking at more of the same, a very few people working on things part time as much as they can with everyone else sitting around moaning nothing is happening. People will not work without incentive, people do not donate, people need to be kept active with constant new developements in the pipeline.
So again - who thinks we should create a development pot from a super block that they can code in? 30M would be a nice number of coins to work with?. People who worry their coins are getting diluted 10% need to realise their coins lost 5% in value today. Those btc went to other more active coins that have developers holding perhaps 20% of the minting and working full time on marketing and coding in the latest features.
I agree with the superblock development & MARKETING fund idea but it would have to be so clearly defined and monitored etc or it would just be a potential source of a huge fud campaign. We know Quark has more than a few haters so everything is going to be attacked so anticipate defenses.
I think running after the Anon train is a fools errand. The anon genre already has some clear leaders and then the myriad of me-too anon coins. There has been ~75 anon/x11/pos coins in the last month...it is pathetic and the 'investors' jumping from one to the next are pretty obviously 12-18 in age and have an attention span of 1 week. If Quark is going to be a currency used by business then those people are not who need to be targeted to move forward.
Quark is an original and innovator and father to a line of clones...you don't go from leader to follower, that is defeat.
mcphervi et al have done some excellent marketing so far with the thunderclap and Shaq-fu and more. This needs to continue and slowly but surely I believe Quark will develop some serious roots that will support strong stable unstoppable growth in the long term.
Great so that's 2 more people that see the sense of forming some kind of development fund. Let's start pushing this idea out to the wider community. Let's get the qrk holders in here discussing the best way to use this development pot to ensure some services, features and marketing of qrk start to appear.
Just having the qrk community together discussing ideas and ways to improve qrk using the development fund would do qrk a lot of good.
Yes, of course we will need to have this fully transparent and secure, we can't have any fudders jumping on this and screaming scam. All the funds will be used to pay for projects and pay those who manage such projects. I trust VIC to always do his best for QRK, the guy seems to work tirelessly day and night on different projects for qrk, most don't realise he is the main driving force. I don't agree with him on all things but i know he works hard. There are others also quietly working away.
Let's get the development pot up and then let's get cracking on some services and serious development plans going forward.
How difficult will it be to fork and introduce a super block with 30M? should be easy right? let's discuss how it would be held and by whom?
We also need to bring Bill fully on to the team and get him more involved with qrk at a deep level. A LOT of the qrk holders are investors whom only bill has access to, going forward we need to introduce some solid ROI projects that will bring great returns to qrk and especially those funding the projects. Without Bill on board and part of the QRK team we can not reach these people.
From the pot we also need to appoint some clearly defined community managers that are given incentives for organising and completing targets we can lay out as a community.
Let's not sit around discussing forever, let's move on this before QRK is worth nothing and we'll need a development pot of 3B.
Yes people should be working and doing projects themselves to increase their own holdings. However things do not work like that, everyone sits there looking at everyone else waiting for something to happen. You need leaders and you need them to have incentive. They are the driving force that will unite the community and together we can accomplish many things.
The shaq thing is actually very big news, but 2015 in crypto is like 3015 in other markets. We need to constantly have things in the pipeline that the community are behind, everyone doing something and some buzz around qrk not people on every thread saying look qrk is dead.
It will not take much to get qrk back to 10sats, there is little qrk for sale it is all stored in cold wallets of investors waiting for it to be 500k sats, this won't happen unless we get moving qrk along right now.
Step 1 - decide how the development pot will be held and secured
Step 2 - decide who will be community managers
Step 3 - Set up the development Pot
Step 4 - As a community decide the best ways to use this Pot to bring on new developers,marketing,projects/services and eventually get enough of the community back here and involved and confident enough to start up some ROI projects. We need to get serious. QRK foundation needs to register as a business and we need to get a fiat to qrk shop / qrk only no other crypto not even BTC. This is where the noobs who have never heard of crypto before but have just heard of how great qrk is are going to be heading. This is their first port of call. Linked to that will be everything else QRK will offer. There is no point at all marketing qrk to crypto virgins only to introduce them to a swamp of other cryptos that distract them.
This can all be mostly done pretty fast, like in a week, we don't need to sit around talking about it for a year. Crypto moves very fast, qrk needs to move very fast.
PM all known serious QRK holders and let's get them here voting on the size of the super block and if and when it will happen. Let's aim to have this ready to go. Let's get bill in on the discussion. This will benefit every single QRK holder if done correctly. Let's rectify the biggest mistakes of QRK - no development funds, and the incentive to mine and secure the network?
Sitting here all wondering when things will change for qrk is a mistake, it is not going to change unless we get together and change it. So lets get on with it.
Max can say if he wants to lead all of this or if he is busy with real life things then we need to perhaps look to VIC or DI. QRK needs one leader with some vision. Yes that leader needs funding and support, also be great if they are a coding genius too. Would be good to hear his views on this, and DI and VIC, come on guys let's start pulling together again and getting some things happening here.
All of the old critics of qrk have NOTHING now. The accelerated mining period of 6 months is a life time compared to all of these critics new fav coins that have pow mining phases of a few days. LOL all the old fud was just a pile of crap because there were not there in the first months of release. They care nothing about accelerated POW mining phases, they are all over these latest coins that are mined out in days.
The fud that worked against QRK to noobs seeing they could mine LTC and BTC but no longer QRK is now null and void, these noobs have been loving their blackcoins, cinni, white, xc, every other super accelerated pow mined coins. QRK was a special case once, now there are an ocean of these super accelerated coins. Noobs entering crypto now will never consider qrk to even have a fast POW phase and scream premine.
There was no premine nor instamine, the dev was the most laid back non pumping dev i ever met. In fact i thought he just made qrk and forgot he'd created it. However the fact the dev didn't grab up millions of coins worked against qrk since the dev still had to work for a living or study and didn't have the inclination to push qrk ahead of the bunch. Actually qrk only gained any attention through DI really. Hence why i hope he will be part of the inner circle or even the leader we get behind. Whoever stands up to lead qrk forward i hope DI, VIC and MAX will be part of it.
Instead of removing this surplus they added SVC, XPM, 
