Topic: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | POW/POS | 0.10.6.3 - New Self Moderated Thread - page 62. (Read 63988 times)

Specifications

* No pre-mine
* Super secure hashing
9 rounds of hashing from 6 hashing functions
(blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein)
3 rounds apply a random hashing function
* CPU / GPU mining
* Quick block generation: 30 seconds
* 2048 QRK per block (halving every 60480 blocks ~ 3 weeks)
* Block reward will never drop below 1 QRK
* Total of 247 million QRK will be mined in ~ 6 months, after that ~ 1 million QRK p.a. (~ 0.5% p.a inflation)
* Difficulty re-targets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)


Downloads

Source code
https://github.com/quark-project/quark

Release 0.10.6.3
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/tag/v0.10.6.3

Windows Qt wallet
Win32
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.6.3/quark-0.10.6.3-win32-setup.exe
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.6.3/quark-0.10.6.3-qt-win32.zip

Win64
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.6.3/quark-0.10.6.3-win64-setup.exe
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.6.3/quark-0.10.6.3-qt-win64.zip

Mac OSX
https://github.com/quark-project/quark/releases/download/v0.10.6.3/quark-0.10.6.3-qt-osx.dmg

Recent release history
29 Nov 2017 - 0.10.6.3: Enable POS by default
27 Nov 2017 - 0.10.6.2: Disconnect old peers, disable POS by default
13 Oct 2017 - 0.10.6.1: Hybrid POS/POW upgrade
3 May 2017 - 0.10.4.5: Checkpoints
22 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.4: Improved syncing
21 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.3: Disconnect old peers - Required upgrade for all Quark 0.9 wallets
9 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.2: Start signalling for BIP66 (strict DER checking)
2 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.1: Core 0.10 upgrade
15 Jun 2016 - 0.9.2.7: Update (Checkpoint, Win installlers, OSX build)
6 Oct 2015 - 0.9.2.6: Checkpoint
11 Sep 2015 - 0.9.2.5: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
31 May 2015 - 0.9.2.4: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
18 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.3: MedianTime fix. Checkpoint.
17 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.2: Checkpoint, OpenSSL fix.
25 Oct 2014 - 0.9.2.1 released.


Exchanges

QRK/KRW 
https://funcoin.co.kr/coin/QRK FunCoin

Block explorers

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/qrk/
https://bitinfocharts.com/quarkcoin/explorer/


Links

Home - http://www.qrknet.info
Slack - http://quarkcoin.slack.com
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin


Standalone miners CPU & GPU

CPU Miners

Cp3u Miner

Discussion page: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cp3u-sha-scrypt-quark-xmr-xdn-bcn-btc-ltc-qrk-win64-cpu-miner-i3i5i7-bulldozer-353448
Downloads : http://sourceforge.net/projects/philosopherstone/files/QRK/  (for Windows etc)
Source: https://github.com/palmd/Cp3u

Other CPU miners

Neisklar's Quark version of CPU Miner (source code): https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer
Original release of Neisklar's Quark CPU Miner (source code) - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wVXhULTFEOWMtaTQ/edit?usp=sharing

GPU miners

SPH-SGminer

Discussion page: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-sph-sgminer-multi-coin-multi-algorithm-gpu-miner-added-marucoin-475795  < please check in on this discussion page for latest, GPU miners are new.
Source: https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer

Smolen's GPU miner thread - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/preview-smelter-gpu-miner-for-whirlpoolx-vanillacoin-310975


Pools

e-pool - http://p2pool.e-pool.net:5860/static/
Mpool - https://www.mpool.me/qrk/
Aikapool - https://aikapool.com/qrk
Mineblockspool - http://mineblocks.co.uk/
All45 - http://all45.ru/

Solo Mining instructions

* Launch your wallet with -gen=1, or add "gen=1" to your quarkcoin.conf file, or type "setgenerate true -1" from the debug console


Pool Mining instructions

* Get CPU or GPU miner from above links
* Follow instructions from each discussion topic
* VPS mining guide: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/qrk-noobproof-vps-quarkcoin-all-in-one-ez-setup-script-updated-264866
* Various optimised standalone miners available