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Pondi
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 28, 2017, 09:01:24 AM
#147
Quote from: steve321 on September 27, 2017, 10:08:10 PM
Rest easy, and relax.  A Quark blockchain snapshot has been created to ease your syncing woes.  Available at CryptoChainer.com.  I know my wallet was out for a while, and thanks to the above poster, I was able to get it back in sync.  This will get your Quark wallet back in action right away.  Enjoy!




At last a bootstrap.

Visit http://www.qrknet.info/ to download the latest build. (very important, nothing will work otherwise)]

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar
or
http://108.61.216.160/cryptochainer.chains/chains/Quarkcoin_blockchain.zip

Back up your wallet before using this bootstrap!!!!!


1. Back up wallet.dat file, the most important thing to do, so you don't lose your coins (if you don't know how to do it, ask for assistance first) 

2. download zip file and save to your hard drive.

3. locate your Quarkcoin directory in your roaming folder, open it and delete all the files within it except the wallet.dat fie. Do not overwrite existing files just to ensure no conflicts.

4. Unzip and extract all the files and 2 folders contained within the Quarkcoin folder. Extract them into the quarkcoin directory contained in your roaming folder.

5. Open wallet and sync in a few minutes.

Alternatively if you are sure you have your wallet.dat file backed and safe, you can delete the entire Quarkcoin folder in your roaming directory then extract the new Quarkcoin folder in its entirety directly into the windows roaming directory.

OR

For a fresh clean install on a windows pc that does not have quark already installed, just extract the Quarkcoin folder contained in the zip file straight into the windows roaming directory.
 C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar
or
http://108.61.216.160/cryptochainer.chains/chains/Quarkcoin_blockchain.zip

New additional link added
Pondi
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 28, 2017, 05:33:01 AM
#146
Quote from: steve321 on September 27, 2017, 10:08:10 PM
Rest easy, and relax.  A Quark blockchain snapshot has been created to ease your syncing woes.  Available at CryptoChainer.com.  I know my wallet was out for a while, and thanks to the above poster, I was able to get it back in sync.  This will get your Quark wallet back in action right away.  Enjoy!

Excellent, great work thanks!

ps. did you update the snapshot before uploading to chryptochainer.com?
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 10:08:10 PM
#145
Rest easy, and relax.  A Quark blockchain snapshot has been created to ease your syncing woes.  Available at CryptoChainer.com.  I know my wallet was out for a while, and thanks to the above poster, I was able to get it back in sync.  This will get your Quark wallet back in action right away.  Enjoy!
Max Guevara
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:01:54 PM
#144
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 27, 2017, 06:59:40 PM
Quote from: Max Guevara on September 27, 2017, 06:13:40 PM
Quote from: ?? on ??
Quote from: Max Guevara on September 25, 2017, 02:02:55 AM
Quote from: Pondi on September 25, 2017, 12:59:04 AM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
Quote from: Pondi on September 24, 2017, 05:18:27 PM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 05:05:47 PM
I'm not really up on the qrk team as it stands ....


Who have we got here

I know about

max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -

who else is there? I never use slack so would like to have a list of the most active quarkers here so I know who is who

we have a new developer, his name is Speca, a professional coder currently working on updating Quark to the latest bitcoin core.

I am also onboard working with Cryotovation and Speca.
Concerning Max, Cryptovation and I along with many others feel he has had more than his chance to do the right thing by quark, but instead has failed it. We are putting together a team now, so will keep you updated. Quark needs a fresh start away from its past and creator the mysterious unknown Max. The quark community deserves a new team that is transparent, honest and dedicated to the project.  


max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -
speca - coder
pondi -


I kind of agree on max although he has done some things of late he is far too slack to be considered the lead coder on the project. Else we will be at 100 sats for years.

Although having said that he obviously can code and could still help if he wanted. Up to him really - come on start helping and contributing on the thread or i guess ...not.

Can speca tell me is it not possible to fork something like PIVx? which is kind of the thing we are going for? or do we have to design and code all of this from scratch ourselves and is this something he can do?


It is possible to fork pivx and it is still an option for the community. This is basically what cryptovation put forward to the community and so organized to be done by Alex and team. It ended up very different, Max should explain.

Developers were paid to do a PoS upgrade, I recommended using Peercoin as a base, someone decided instead to use a buggy PivX masternode/PoS implementation as a base. The masternode code was far from working, PoS was tested by the community and me, major bugs were reported. No fixes were done by the developers, so it was wasted effort at the end of the day.


Max it would have been very helpful if you had of been more engaged and communicative during our engaging Alex and team. My question to you Max why did you not communicate with Alex and team about using Peercoin as a base and why was it that I only heard about this after Alex and team had already worked with PIVx??


FUD. In my very first message to alex i specified we would like it to be based of Peercoin implementation.


Max can you explain why pivX is doing so well if it is all buggy?

I am trying to understand why we are not forking pivx since it has the features we want?

Also good you are active to respond to things on this thread.

All we all want hopefully is the best for quarks future. I hope you and speca can work together and that the entire team can get along.

Will you be able to dedicate more time to quark also can you please buy up a huge chunk of quark now it is worthless so you can have enough financial motivation to get full on with developing or helping developing quark.

My opinion of you is what i said. QRk was a fair launch without any premine so you never got enough financial incentive to work much on this project is that a fair assessment or not?

Also are you open to working with other coders on this project and having a team rather than a one person does everything type situation?

Just want to have open discussion about this because I am still buying up quark at this time.

Lastly can you quickly explain why just forking straight off of pivx latest build is not the best move here?

What was the talking about  quantum resistant and how realistic is this coming to fruition in the near future.

I don't know for sure but i sense there is 2 directions that is threating to pull quarks manpower in half. Be good to resolve this even if by community decision so that we can unite and work in one direction.


Porting over a bunch of complicated features at once is a sure fire way to break lots of things. Trying to implement two big projects like Masternodes and PoS at once is not very prudent. A phased approach where each feature is added and thoroughly reviewed and tested is the way to go. PivX is on a different code base from Quark, this complicates matters. PivX also has an old modified PoS implementation that's different from Peercoin.

I have always been open to work with other developers, but personally I only have time for code review and testing at this stage.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 06:59:40 PM
#143
Quote from: Max Guevara on September 27, 2017, 06:13:40 PM
Quote from: ?? on ??
Quote from: Max Guevara on September 25, 2017, 02:02:55 AM
Quote from: Pondi on September 25, 2017, 12:59:04 AM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
Quote from: Pondi on September 24, 2017, 05:18:27 PM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 05:05:47 PM
I'm not really up on the qrk team as it stands ....


Who have we got here

I know about

max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -

who else is there? I never use slack so would like to have a list of the most active quarkers here so I know who is who

we have a new developer, his name is Speca, a professional coder currently working on updating Quark to the latest bitcoin core.

I am also onboard working with Cryotovation and Speca.
Concerning Max, Cryptovation and I along with many others feel he has had more than his chance to do the right thing by quark, but instead has failed it. We are putting together a team now, so will keep you updated. Quark needs a fresh start away from its past and creator the mysterious unknown Max. The quark community deserves a new team that is transparent, honest and dedicated to the project.  


max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -
speca - coder
pondi -


I kind of agree on max although he has done some things of late he is far too slack to be considered the lead coder on the project. Else we will be at 100 sats for years.

Although having said that he obviously can code and could still help if he wanted. Up to him really - come on start helping and contributing on the thread or i guess ...not.

Can speca tell me is it not possible to fork something like PIVx? which is kind of the thing we are going for? or do we have to design and code all of this from scratch ourselves and is this something he can do?


It is possible to fork pivx and it is still an option for the community. This is basically what cryptovation put forward to the community and so organized to be done by Alex and team. It ended up very different, Max should explain.

Developers were paid to do a PoS upgrade, I recommended using Peercoin as a base, someone decided instead to use a buggy PivX masternode/PoS implementation as a base. The masternode code was far from working, PoS was tested by the community and me, major bugs were reported. No fixes were done by the developers, so it was wasted effort at the end of the day.


Max it would have been very helpful if you had of been more engaged and communicative during our engaging Alex and team. My question to you Max why did you not communicate with Alex and team about using Peercoin as a base and why was it that I only heard about this after Alex and team had already worked with PIVx??


FUD. In my very first message to alex i specified we would like it to be based of Peercoin implementation.


Max can you explain why pivX is doing so well if it is all buggy?

I am trying to understand why we are not forking pivx since it has the features we want?

Also good you are active to respond to things on this thread.

All we all want hopefully is the best for quarks future. I hope you and speca can work together and that the entire team can get along.

Will you be able to dedicate more time to quark also can you please buy up a huge chunk of quark now it is worthless so you can have enough financial motivation to get full on with developing or helping developing quark.

My opinion of you is what i said. QRk was a fair launch without any premine so you never got enough financial incentive to work much on this project is that a fair assessment or not?

Also are you open to working with other coders on this project and having a team rather than a one person does everything type situation?

Just want to have open discussion about this because I am still buying up quark at this time.

Lastly can you quickly explain why just forking straight off of pivx latest build is not the best move here?

What was the talking about  quantum resistant and how realistic is this coming to fruition in the near future.

I don't know for sure but i sense there is 2 directions that is threating to pull quarks manpower in half. Be good to resolve this even if by community decision so that we can unite and work in one direction.

Max Guevara
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 06:13:40 PM
#142
Quote from: ?? on ??
Quote from: Max Guevara on September 25, 2017, 02:02:55 AM
Quote from: Pondi on September 25, 2017, 12:59:04 AM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 06:19:16 PM
Quote from: Pondi on September 24, 2017, 05:18:27 PM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 24, 2017, 05:05:47 PM
I'm not really up on the qrk team as it stands ....


Who have we got here

I know about

max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -

who else is there? I never use slack so would like to have a list of the most active quarkers here so I know who is who

we have a new developer, his name is Speca, a professional coder currently working on updating Quark to the latest bitcoin core.

I am also onboard working with Cryotovation and Speca.
Concerning Max, Cryptovation and I along with many others feel he has had more than his chance to do the right thing by quark, but instead has failed it. We are putting together a team now, so will keep you updated. Quark needs a fresh start away from its past and creator the mysterious unknown Max. The quark community deserves a new team that is transparent, honest and dedicated to the project.  


max - creator and still involved?
vic -
cryptovation -
speca - coder
pondi -


I kind of agree on max although he has done some things of late he is far too slack to be considered the lead coder on the project. Else we will be at 100 sats for years.

Although having said that he obviously can code and could still help if he wanted. Up to him really - come on start helping and contributing on the thread or i guess ...not.

Can speca tell me is it not possible to fork something like PIVx? which is kind of the thing we are going for? or do we have to design and code all of this from scratch ourselves and is this something he can do?


It is possible to fork pivx and it is still an option for the community. This is basically what cryptovation put forward to the community and so organized to be done by Alex and team. It ended up very different, Max should explain.

Developers were paid to do a PoS upgrade, I recommended using Peercoin as a base, someone decided instead to use a buggy PivX masternode/PoS implementation as a base. The masternode code was far from working, PoS was tested by the community and me, major bugs were reported. No fixes were done by the developers, so it was wasted effort at the end of the day.


Max it would have been very helpful if you had of been more engaged and communicative during our engaging Alex and team. My question to you Max why did you not communicate with Alex and team about using Peercoin as a base and why was it that I only heard about this after Alex and team had already worked with PIVx??


FUD. In my very first message to alex i specified we would like it to be based of Peercoin implementation.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 10:45:33 AM
#141



At last a bootstrap.

Visit http://www.qrknet.info/ to download the latest build. (very important, nothing will work otherwise)]

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar
or
http://108.61.216.160/cryptochainer.chains/chains/Quarkcoin_blockchain.zip

Back up your wallet before using this bootstrap!!!!!


1. Back up wallet.dat file, the most important thing to do, so you don't lose your coins (if you don't know how to do it, ask for assistance first)  

2. download zip file and save to your hard drive.

3. locate your Quarkcoin directory in your roaming folder, open it and delete all the files within it except the wallet.dat fie. Do not overwrite existing files just to ensure no conflicts.

4. Unzip and extract all the files and 2 folders contained within the Quarkcoin folder. Extract them into the quarkcoin directory contained in your roaming folder.

5. Open wallet and sync in a few minutes.

Alternatively if you are sure you have your wallet.dat file backed and safe, you can delete the entire Quarkcoin folder in your roaming directory then extract the new Quarkcoin folder in its entirety directly into the windows roaming directory.

OR

For a fresh clean install on a windows pc that does not have quark already installed, just extract the Quarkcoin folder contained in the zip file straight into the windows roaming directory.
 C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar
or
http://108.61.216.160/cryptochainer.chains/chains/Quarkcoin_blockchain.zip

New additional link added
Pondi
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 10:44:47 AM
#140
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 27, 2017, 09:18:00 AM
Quote from: mcphervi on September 26, 2017, 05:25:42 PM
Quote from: ?? on ??

I agree with your points. We need to build a new foundation built upon transparency and openness and the entire community needs to involved with the direction of the project via a voting system. Decentralized development funded via a block tax for an on chain development fund, master-node governance like Dash works great and that is definitely a very strong foundation to work towards. The Pacatum coding group http://btc.pacatum.com have written the masternode code for Quark at the same time that they wrote the the PoS/PoW hybrid code but Max decided he did not want that and only wants "basic masternodes" without the governance (no community vote no discussing it with the community just like a dictator changed it). This at the time frustrated me very much and I still strongly disagree with basic masternodes. We need masternode governance. We need on chain development fund to fund development into the future. We need the PoS/PoW hybrid for network security.We need to upgrade to latest bitcoin core 0.15.0 and implement segwit for lightning network and atomic cross chain swaps. We need a new Lead Dev as clearly Max is not available to Quark. We need to engage as a community and move this project to success together.

While I agree we need to add to the development team, this timeline and several of the statements, are not 100% accurate. On the masternodes, the reason cited for holding off on immediately implementing the masternodes was that Max wanted time to test and verify the masternode code after the POW/POS hybrid code was released - in order to ensure safety of the code once it was released, as he was concerned about making too many major changes all at once. There was concern because major bugs had been found in the POS code as he tested. He also did want to progress to decentralized governance masternodes with dev funding, but wanted to progress through basic masternodes - again as a conservative measure to ensure network stability. The timeframe was different than I or you wanted but the end result was largely going to end up at the same location.

FYI, Pacatum has submitted a POS fix pull request - however right now, I am not sure who is going to test the code.

Well hopefully either max or speca or both?

I am glad to see things are opening up here on the thread. Everything needs to be transparent and max needs to explain himself clearly else he may get a worse opinion of him forming than is the reality.

All we need is transparency on everything so we all know what everyone is thinking and their reasons for thinking it.

Lots of discussion on the thread is not a bad thing actually it keeps it active and people can get involved with the entire revival and improvement process.

could not agree more
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 09:18:00 AM
#139
Quote from: mcphervi on September 26, 2017, 05:25:42 PM
Quote from: ?? on ??

I agree with your points. We need to build a new foundation built upon transparency and openness and the entire community needs to involved with the direction of the project via a voting system. Decentralized development funded via a block tax for an on chain development fund, master-node governance like Dash works great and that is definitely a very strong foundation to work towards. The Pacatum coding group http://btc.pacatum.com have written the masternode code for Quark at the same time that they wrote the the PoS/PoW hybrid code but Max decided he did not want that and only wants "basic masternodes" without the governance (no community vote no discussing it with the community just like a dictator changed it). This at the time frustrated me very much and I still strongly disagree with basic masternodes. We need masternode governance. We need on chain development fund to fund development into the future. We need the PoS/PoW hybrid for network security.We need to upgrade to latest bitcoin core 0.15.0 and implement segwit for lightning network and atomic cross chain swaps. We need a new Lead Dev as clearly Max is not available to Quark. We need to engage as a community and move this project to success together.

While I agree we need to add to the development team, this timeline and several of the statements, are not 100% accurate. On the masternodes, the reason cited for holding off on immediately implementing the masternodes was that Max wanted time to test and verify the masternode code after the POW/POS hybrid code was released - in order to ensure safety of the code once it was released, as he was concerned about making too many major changes all at once. There was concern because major bugs had been found in the POS code as he tested. He also did want to progress to decentralized governance masternodes with dev funding, but wanted to progress through basic masternodes - again as a conservative measure to ensure network stability. The timeframe was different than I or you wanted but the end result was largely going to end up at the same location.

FYI, Pacatum has submitted a POS fix pull request - however right now, I am not sure who is going to test the code.

Well hopefully either max or speca or both?

I am glad to see things are opening up here on the thread. Everything needs to be transparent and max needs to explain himself clearly else he may get a worse opinion of him forming than is the reality.

All we need is transparency on everything so we all know what everyone is thinking and their reasons for thinking it.

Lots of discussion on the thread is not a bad thing actually it keeps it active and people can get involved with the entire revival and improvement process.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 09:13:16 AM
#138
Quote from: nuttynoah on September 26, 2017, 12:27:11 PM
Quote from: cryptohunter on September 26, 2017, 07:34:40 AM
There are a lot of old members holding quark we need a spider or some kind of script to email everyone on the old qrk thread and get them active here.


FYI there have been around 40 different contributors to this new Quark thread.

I have sent PMs to around 160 posters from the original thread letting them know about the coming changes to Quark and this thread.

that's great, thanks for doing that. Be good if we can get a good community building up around quark.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 09:12:03 AM
#137
Quote from: ghzsymc2 on September 26, 2017, 10:40:29 AM
http://www.btc38.com/news/2017/9/15564.html


Guys, I want you to watch the news
South Korea will open the largest trading market, with the first batch of more than 110 COINS, and they are working with bittrex, so I suspect there is probably no quark
Their companies are very powerful, and they have developed a social software have more than 200 million users
It's a great opportunity. Can we try to get in touch and ask to put the quarks on it too
Who is there a way to
If we can launch on this platform, we will make a lot of Korean people know quark

https://upbit.com/home



Is this an interesting idea for quark?
Retired
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:52:06 AM
#136
What is the best european pool right now?
Pondi
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:45:43 AM
#135
Quote from: tradingdisaster on September 27, 2017, 06:46:46 AM
Guys, I cannot even get the current Quark Core v0.10.4.5 (64-Bit) wallet to sync because it finds only one blocksource and that doesn't seem very active.

Before you dream about masternodes and PoS, you should fix fundamentals first, like creating a website that isn't awful and that has up-to-date blocksources.





At last a bootstrap.

Visit http://www.qrknet.info/ to download the latest build. (very important, nothing will work otherwise)]

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar

Back up your wallet before using this bootstrap!!!!!


1. Back up wallet.dat file, the most important thing to do, so you don't lose your coins (if you don't know how to do it, ask for assistance first)  

2. download zip file and save to your hard drive.

3. locate your Quarkcoin directory in your roaming folder, open it and delete all the files within it except the wallet.dat fie. Do not overwrite existing files just to ensure no conflicts.

4. Unzip and extract all the files and 2 folders contained within the Quarkcoin folder. Extract them into the quarkcoin directory contained in your roaming folder.

5. Open wallet and sync in a few minutes.

Alternatively if you are sure you have your wallet.dat file backed and safe, you can delete the entire Quarkcoin folder in your roaming directory then extract the new Quarkcoin folder in its entirety directly into the windows roaming directory.

OR

For a fresh clean install on a windows pc that does not have quark already installed, just extract the Quarkcoin folder contained in the zip file straight into the windows roaming directory.
 C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming

To sync in a few minutes.

https://mega.nz/#!ZToHXAqA!YjuNPdBYSc3UgOeb5IlcQoyIubpSl4g2C-bP7hr9J9g
or
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1u6u4n6p3w2fcp9/Quarkcoin.rar


If you download the "bootstrap" directory, follow the instructions, it will work, I have tested this link to build new wallets countless times, and works perfectly. I have a test wallet running now with 8 connections, I installed it 10 minutes ago from the above link and it is synced.

I agree with you about the website....well actually everything you said. Quark is currently facing a heart lung transplant. The website is gross. Thanks for the feed back
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:43:34 AM
#134
Quote from: Jonesd on September 26, 2017, 11:05:42 AM
Good to see this coin is being revived! Seeing all the progress and the crazy low price, I bought back in at 150-200. Looking forward to the things coming!

Yes I totally agree here. Really love to see the project revived. Just curious about the amount needed for the potential masternode implementation
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:41:42 AM
#133
Quote from: tradingdisaster on September 27, 2017, 06:46:46 AM
Guys, I cannot even get the current Quark Core v0.10.4.5 (64-Bit) wallet to sync because it finds only one blocksource and that doesn't seem very active.

Before you dream about masternodes and PoS, you should fix fundamentals first, like creating a website that isn't awful and that has up-to-date blocksources.

Did you download the bootstrap? What build did you install?
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 08:39:46 AM
#132
Quote from: tradingdisaster on September 27, 2017, 06:46:46 AM
Guys, I cannot even get the current Quark Core v0.10.4.5 (64-Bit) wallet to sync because it finds only one blocksource and that doesn't seem very active.

Before you dream about masternodes and PoS, you should fix fundamentals first, like creating a website that isn't awful and that has up-to-date blocksources.

addnode=213.32.98.226
addnode=95.183.52.52
addnode=69.9.43.163
addnode=125.238.166.39
addnode=208.94.242.218
addnode=88.101.6.12
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 07:33:16 AM
#131
Thanks for the email letting me know QRK is up and running again, never thought this would happen! Had written off my stash to (bad)experience, so this is REALLY good to see  Grin

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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 06:46:46 AM
#130
Guys, I cannot even get the current Quark Core v0.10.4.5 (64-Bit) wallet to sync because it finds only one blocksource and that doesn't seem very active.

Before you dream about masternodes and PoS, you should fix fundamentals first, like creating a website that isn't awful and that has up-to-date blocksources.
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 27, 2017, 05:57:39 AM
#129
Can the Moderator delete the above post and ban DI from this thread and all his sockpuppets.
Deja vu anyone?
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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread
September 26, 2017, 05:25:42 PM
#128
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I agree with your points. We need to build a new foundation built upon transparency and openness and the entire community needs to involved with the direction of the project via a voting system. Decentralized development funded via a block tax for an on chain development fund, master-node governance like Dash works great and that is definitely a very strong foundation to work towards. The Pacatum coding group http://btc.pacatum.com have written the masternode code for Quark at the same time that they wrote the the PoS/PoW hybrid code but Max decided he did not want that and only wants "basic masternodes" without the governance (no community vote no discussing it with the community just like a dictator changed it). This at the time frustrated me very much and I still strongly disagree with basic masternodes. We need masternode governance. We need on chain development fund to fund development into the future. We need the PoS/PoW hybrid for network security.We need to upgrade to latest bitcoin core 0.15.0 and implement segwit for lightning network and atomic cross chain swaps. We need a new Lead Dev as clearly Max is not available to Quark. We need to engage as a community and move this project to success together.

While I agree we need to add to the development team, this timeline and several of the statements, are not 100% accurate. On the masternodes, the reason cited for holding off on immediately implementing the masternodes was that Max wanted time to test and verify the masternode code after the POW/POS hybrid code was released - in order to ensure safety of the code once it was released, as he was concerned about making too many major changes all at once. There was concern because major bugs had been found in the POS code as he tested. He also did want to progress to decentralized governance masternodes with dev funding, but wanted to progress through basic masternodes - again as a conservative measure to ensure network stability. The timeframe was different than I or you wanted but the end result was largely going to end up at the same location.

FYI, Pacatum has submitted a POS fix pull request - however right now, I am not sure who is going to test the code.
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