Topic: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | Core 0.10 upgrade - page 19. (Read 1031025 times)

However, before anyone goes too far to revitalize on this one it I would warn that, speaking from experience... its history is steeped in shady dealings and therefore the only hope for its future is for present bagholders to get a good dump into the current altcoin craze/ pumps... Too bad we couldn't get something like a Pivx going when we were working so hard and looking for our long lost dev who was found working on Myriad and other coins...The dev who refused to realize that his right hand man "digital industry" was a complete and total scam artist, who actually worked against Quark for his own (and friends) purposes (i.e., selling to get more bitcoin)
Best hope for this coin (which *had* great potential!) is to start from scratch, Quark 2.0, with adequate time for all to prepare for launch(i.e. no scammy premine...)

Well Well Well! How very interesting to see this coin is in revitalization mode!

Quark 0.10.4.5

* Checkpoints
* Remove obsolete version warning

https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/tag/v0.10.4.5

It's come to the teams attention that people are having issues with deposits and withdrawals from btc38 - I've contacted Max to look into the issue, but I'd recommend that people hold off on moving any coins to or from there for now until we can address this. I'm not sure if this is a general or specific issue right now - we're looking into it.

Edit: It looks right now like its isolated to BTC38

Hi chinaBLK - if you look above, w're in the planning stages of reviving the coin, and Max has been active the last several weeks. Coding on changing the coin from POW to hybrid POW/POS should begin soon, and masternodes will likely be implemented in the near future as well! In addition, another developer team, cryptocoderz, has been added to alongside Max, so we are getting things moving again!

Does quark have a developer?

It looks like a quark is dead.
 
If someone wants to change quarks,I can tell the quarrel news to the Chinese exchange. Just need to reply to me.

Once we have a solid road map put out I think quark will revive very quickly. We have btc38 too which is a big advantage. If we increase volume they will reinstate us to their main cny market i hope.

Bittrex will be the next step.

Thanks cryptohunter - much appreciated. I wholeheartedly agree - I would love to see this return as a healthy independent project with good people behind it. I really think we're moving in a good direction here.

Block versions

Some pools are signalling incorrect block versions, causing a warning in nodes to upgrade:

https://github.com/quark-project/quark/issues/2

Can all pool operators please ensure that their pools are generating version 113 blocks.

It appears a NOMP pool is also using BIP 9 version bits, e.g.

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/qrk/block.dws?0000000028d0a21896db7ccd096c462777c30124ee3fc5c6bddaecdd6bef366c

Other pools signalling version 112 is in danger of being cut off from the network.

Welcome guys, looking forward to bringing this one back.

Great work you guys.

Whatever people say about max I have 100% faith that you vic are not interested in creating a pump and dump coin here.

I still am holding a lot of my quark that I mined early on.

The mining part was 100% fair. I never saw max promote or bother even updating much on quark before hence my suspicion nobody was able to get any quark against stephenB (huge processing power)  in the early mining days.

No point really speculating on what may have happened with other coins I am primarily interested in seeing quark return as a healthy project that has some real purpose and community behind it.

If we find bad eggs here like last time trying to sabotage the project they must be made pariahs and shunned.

Onward and upward for this once great project.

Lol
Why? Did the people once interested/involved in Quark move from quarktalk/reddit to bitcointalk   

But relax, you and your team already start to bury my posts soon I am 5 pages back 

Hello everyone,

It is an honor to to have the opportunity to work with the Quark community and team. I personally am very excited to see what the future brings with this partnership as Quark has always been a great project and working together towards a common goal is something CryptoCoderz  has always been in favor of.

We hope to bring improvements and new features per community and team discussions and their outcomes. Let's grow together and make a brighter spot in the Crypto world.

We'll be in touch and post again throughout the coming week. We're having some promotional material be made up for Twitter promotions and other mediums to get Quark out there more.

Looking forward to the future,
Cryptocoderz

They have experience working with the Quark code base, and are very willing to help - honestly, I'm very happy to accept their help, and add to the development manpower. As we've been discussing above, I think its not realistic to expect one man to do everything for the coin for years at a time - Max has openly expressed that he is willing to work with other developers on Slack, so I'm happy to have them added to the team.

Obviously in!
Well done and good luck!

On behalf of the Quark community and the Quark team, I am very happy to announce that the Cryptocoderz development team (http://cryptocoderz.com/index.html) have generously accepted to become a part of the Quark development team. They will work alongside Max, and start work on progressing towards implementing the features changes I outlined in my above post. I very sincerely look forward to working with them and welcome them to the team!!

https://twitter.com/QuarkPress/status/858837952511827975

Hi Silvermetal,
Could you create your own dedicated thread about your misgivings re Quark and people invloved.
Put a link in here for people to follow if they so choose and then leave this thread dedicated to those interested and involved in the reboot of Quark.
Cheers!

Do you know what annoyed me?
Not that he copied dozens of other coins
Not that he wastes time on other projects
That is his own problem.

What annoys me is:
that "Max", who cloned Quark, works together with immoral people.
If it was about fiat money, I would call it a "criminal organization".
For Max and his friends the alt coin scene is a "wild west" scene; Everything is allowed.
Therefore instead of a "criminal organization" I will call Max and his team a "wild west organization".

And yes, he can code (or copy/paste), that is why he is included in this wild west organization.

Every clone of him follows more or less the same pattern:
Coin is announced as a fair new coin without a pre-mine, it is always picked up by the same mine pool, and after it is mined as hell (by this "wild west organization") the coin is listed at the same shady exchange where all his coins (also the ones which are more or less dead) are listed.
How shady the exchange is, I did read here in this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12934107

And then the scammers he cooperates with. At Quark we all know of course Digitalindustry. But there are more like this one;
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10667896
(I call him the UNO scammer, because he runs a moderated UNO thread at bitcointalk where you can find his dozens of sockpuppets).
"Max" now and then visits the UNO thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10067608
This UNO scammer also now and then visits the Quark thread, therefore I am confident he holds a significant amount of Quark too:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11199646

The complete "wild west team" is an anonymous group of people, hiding their self behind their sockpuppet accounts.

And what annoys me the most is that Max announces his copied coins as a "community coin". He and his team creates a "foundation" for his coins. The foundation is usually a group of naive, integer people who market his coins. Meanwhile the "wild west team" is cashing the mined coins.



Don't be afraid, he and "his friends" has more than enough to manipulate the Quark market on the right moment. Just be patient. You don't need to do anything.

Although this all seems kind of annoying he would waste time on these other projects when the top alt (except) LTC of 2013 with one of the best names QUARK and most famous project is reduced to a shadow of itself...... if it is true anyway.

It is not all bad. The guy can obviously code and has some good skill set. PIVX is using quark algo 4 years later and quark algo is still one of the best.

The main issue with QUARK was that the launch (that i was on) was very very fair. I had only a couple of quad core machines and i mined up a good chunk. Weeks later i tried to rent some quad core servers and mine on them and still then i was able to mine a lot of quark. It was a fair launch but one guy stephenB i think his name was really did have a lot of cpu power and took most of the easy coins.

So the main issue was max did not get enough coins to incentivise working on quark much and it was pretty much undeveloped and not marketed at all by him.

Let's introduce a development tax and fund him to make quark relevant and even rather exciting again.

His biggest flaw is he does not talk much in public nor if you PM him.

Max if you want to bring quark back start talking on here and looking like you are serious.

I hope you have enough quark now and enough sense to see quark is a project that needs to be brought back...

I hope the old foundation members will come back too.

I haven't yet truly weighed in on my exact vision for Quark's revival. What I would like to work towards follows below. Max, if you want to weigh in please do.

Short term (next 1-2 months):
- Change from POW to hybrid POW/POS:
         - POW/POS implementation similar to decred, with all POS stakeholders in the lottery
                      - POS based on PIVX; maintaining the swing mechanism which balances the financial incentive between POS stakers and masternodes in such a manner as to encourgae liquidity
         - Inflation change from 0.5%/annum, infinite supply to 3-3.5% per annum. This preserves the original intent of a switch to low inflation following an original mining period, with a constant supply into the future to preserve mining incentive indefinitely
         - Using the 3.5% figure, have a split of 1.35% POS, 1.85% POW, 0.3% Development
         - Have the development funding placement into escrow or multisig requiring address

2-4 months:
         - Masternode implementation - as above
         - Plan to swap to decentralized governance and decentralized development funding based on masternode voting

4-10 months:
         - Engage developers to look at implementing a sidechain with anon features - this allows an anonymity solution while ensuring that there is a public transaction record for Quark proper to ensure transparency
                         - Have a deflationary charge built into the system when taking the coins off chain - ie. remove a small subset (maybe 0.1% of the sent coins from circulation when taking chains onto the side chain)
                                    - This offsets some of the additional inflation being built in by the increase in coin supply as per above