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Qtum: Q1 Review



https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-q1-review-15aca6da57c9


We started off 2019 with a few short months to remember! The hard work from the team and community has led to an eventful first quarter with an even more ambitious roadmap for the second quarter.


“QTUM Expansion — New office”


Just as predicted, our project has grown at a frantic pace, and we have been adding highly skilled people into our ranks for some time, it was time to celebrate our growth and to start fresh in a new, bigger office space.









Starting 2019 with an Award


We had a great start with an award right as 2019 was getting started! Representing QTUM at the Forensic 2019 blockchain awards ceremony in Hangzhou, China, our lead engineer from China, Zhong Wenbin, was presented with a “Most Valuable Decentralized Application Platform” Award.




For more information, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DDRbIhkCx3CBeIv9CJSwuw (English translation available)


QTUM Atomic Swap

On January 9th, we had folks excited about our first on chain atomic swap with BTC. Atomic swaps are a direct way to exchange value across two separate blockchains. In this case, our swap was configured for QTUM and BTC. There can be many advantages in doing atomic swaps. On a high level, being able to process a transaction between two different platforms without having to involve a third party makes things easier and faster than our current system of centralized exchanges. Atomic swaps allow parties to make transactions in a trustless manner. When implemented successfully there is no risk to either party involved in the transaction, no 3rd party to wait for confirmation, and if the transaction is canceled, assets return to their owners. Our atomic swap can be viewed from start to finish via block explorers. 1.2345 QTUM held by party #1 is exchanged with 0.005678 BTC from party #2 and then BTC is redeemed by party #1 and QTUM redeemed by party #2

INITIATE 1.2345 QTUM: http://HTTPS://QTUM.INFO/TX/FFD08F31CEFF36C39FA142B0507B1C71839F4684CCE42B2A74EC06917A71C4AE

PARTICIPATE 0.005678 BTC: http://HTTPS://WWW.BLOCKCHAIN.COM/BTC/TX/5984F23230715F7C20163356DCE62A4AFE0EE476B8567987432FA52758967F0F

REDEEM 0.005678 BTC: http://HTTPS://WWW.BLOCKCHAIN.COM/BTC/TX/1DFC072337D079847FB634EBF7D4A5D51874142DD3BBB958C3556AFA1B2FC29C (link will be fixed shortly)

REDEEM 1.2345 QTUM: https://qtum.info/TX/10008E0A43A56B19266BCC087785789EB4AF75C34F3501FB1CAED05B63B11A61









For more information, visit our blog: https://blog.qtum.org/atomic-cross-chain-swap-on-qtum-7e756a890ed7 or check some of the news articles posted on Bitcoin Magazine.





Space, the final frontier — we’ve been there!




Block 301421 became active on Jan 16th of this year, included in that block was the first QTUM transaction completed in space! Since then, SpaceChain has been continuing to use QTUM blockchain tech with their space system. This was the second SpaceChain node to be launched into orbit and continues to function today. SpaceChain benefits from the Qtum blockchain method of “low power” proof of stake consensus mechanism, instead of computationally heavy POW blockchains. That history-making transaction is viewable at:

https://qtum.info/tx/7dfdfa9322ac5b9b4a89da44f7db90d300c636117f456514f8c27f60d0224a54






For more information, visit https://www.satellitetoday.com/innovation/2019/01/18/spacechain-carries-out-1st-qtum-transaction-in-space/ and also check out https://spacechain.com/ for the current status of the SpaceChain Satellite.


First 2019 Hackathon


Our first major QTUM sponsored hackathon of 2019 happened at the Binance Blockchain week in Singapore. The SAFU (Secured Assets for Users) hackathon featured two straight days of development around new tools to prevent and secure users’ assets. Our CEO Patrick was part of the judging panel and saw some great projects literally start from the ground up. https://www.binancefair.com/safu-hackathon/






“10,000 Transactions Per Second!”






Our enterprise level blockchain system, Unita (previously known as QtumX) had been in deep development for some time and we felt it was time to share some exciting developments regarding Unita’s scalability and show off a little of the transaction power the new enterprise network was capable of achieving. Included with our announcement was additional details about Unita block processing — namely that the system does not have to produce new blocks if there are not any pending transactions, which reduces both resources and storage loads

For more information visit our blog or view one of the news articles at https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/qtum-blockchains-new-qtumx-system-has-broken-through-10000-transactions-per-second/



“Fake Stake”


Just as things were starting to move along smoothly in the crypto community news of potential issues with proof of stake blockchains started spreading around the internet like wildfire, initially sparked when a report and security disclosure called to attention “Fake Stake” attacks that could potentially take out nodes on proof of stake blockchains. Most of the issues involved the potential for attackers to run nodes out of memory or disk space when a specially crafted header was sent to them. This could have potentially lead to networks being attacked and having multiple nodes offline.




The original people who discovered this widespread bug, members of the Decentralized systems lab from the University of Illinois had contacted us with their findings back in October 2018 and our development team had taken steps to prevent this type of exploit against our network. Of the 25 main POS blockchains affected, Qtum had the vulnerability patched quickly after discussions with the Decentralized systems lab and had no reported issues prior to disclosure.



“Qtum version 0.17.1”



The major features implemented in Qtum Ignition include:

The Ethereum Virtual Machine, which allows for compatibility with most existing Solidity based smart contracts.

The Smart Staking Protocol is complete, which is an optimized Proof of Stake implementation designed for a smart contract platform (however, smart contracts cannot participate in staking yet).

An improved smart contract GUI has been implemented that can be used for creating contracts, sending data and Qtum to them, and checking their status by executing them locally, The GUI also offers easy QRC20 tokens management.

Regtest mode, which is ideal for developers who wish to create their own private blockchain. It is tuned specifically to make development easier. It will stake blocks automatically every 30 seconds and can generate proof-of-work blocks instantly as needed.

The Decentralized Governance Protocol is completely implemented and functional, which allows certain network parameters to be modified without a fork.

For more information visit our GitHub or view one of the news articles at Today’s Gazette.








“Chinese New Year — AWS and IPFS Development”







February was a month of service offerings at QTUM, we launched a new AMI for Amazon web services users, which contains all the software and settings needed to run QTUM. Additionally, we released guides on DApp building using IPFS






The AMI and signup information is available at: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B07FB214D3?qid=1555540162461&sr=0-1&ref_=srh_res_product_title






Qtum and IPFS development info can be found at https://blog.qtum.org/how-to-build-a-dapp-based-on-qtum-and-ipfs-692bc3ab607a






“QTUM Space Node 1700+ orbits”








As of writing, the satellite continues to function while zipping along in orbit.



“0.17.2”


This release saw our continued efforts to refine our user experience with updates to the GUI for most users and a welcome revealing of the GUI for RaspberryPi users.

Every week our developers have been releasing updates to keep our userbase and DApp developers informed of changes and additions to the project. Most of these updates are available directly at https://qtum.org/en/news




“Qtum + Zeux Payments”



QTUM users can now directly pay for goods and services via the Zeux App. Zeux automatically handles currency conversion and works as a 3rd party between the Apple/Samsung pay application. Finally, you can order lunch using QTUM tokens on your phone!





For more details about this development visit our blog: https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-zeux-payments-9e40edaedf9d

To join the Qtum Telegram channel, click this invitation link:  https://t.me/qtumofficial

i think qtum is as good as Ethereum.    but most of the people can not understand the Technology, just need long time.

99% people buy coin because the price is going up..it's simple.

i really dont have any explaination for this price movement
sometimes i have the feeling that the crypto market at all turns out to be pure gambling without any indicators.
i spectated it on many coins, no matter how the indicators are people are just panicing and selling. its completly irrational to me and im absolutely clueless about this price movement. i would never react like the 40% of the investors in the crypto market right now. its like they are buying expensive and selling cheap. an absolutely mystery to me. maybe they are newbie investors or something like that...

to potentally investors: im not making advertisments or anything im really honest: this was my entry point and buying in this price is one of the best investment opportunitys you can get. its 90m coins. the price is very low for its supply (2,20 dollars) and the performance of this coin was amazing at 2017 also as a well known company. i can only recommend it. in my opinion you have nothing to loose.

just remember my words. people will regret selling at the range from 2,6 to 2,2.
somebody recognize me in a month 

Is the DJ Qian have any relation to this project? On the Fusion website says that he is a founder of Qtum and VeChain. But as I see Qtum and VChain don’t have him in the team. So DJ Qian is a scammer and Fusion is a scam project?

Good timing with the updates, the bull run is on the verge of pumping so people will be looking to invest in something good. QTUM is highly advanced and has the potential to compete with ethereum, cardano, EOS, Tezos, so it should rise in value

Recent more actively communication and developments of QTUM have actually brought so much hope for QTUM community. It has lots of meanings for them after long period of holding, and waiting for returns of QTUM. If we simply look at the chart of price over last one year, the QTUM has fallen from about $23 to $2.5 today. It means the coin lost nearly ten-times from its all year high from 2018 till now. Fortunately, their team have come back with more news, more regularly communication, and promised things to finish and release in the very near future. Congrats!

Suddenly lot of developments and team representative also returned and is active fully all this draw very positive scenario. You have so many things to read that one can't simply focus on a single feature to disk. This update report is best but what was of my immediate interest was support for Trezor in wallet changing section and addition of new page on website for updates related to nodes.

Yes, they published our Press Release, which was really nice of them. We tweeted this out yesterday:

https://twitter.com/QtumOfficial/status/1120998197634031616

nice to the bitcointalk manager come back.

wow that's great updates!

looking forward the future of qtum to back to top10 !

yahoo has published an article about unita: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qtum-launches-enterprise-blockchain-solution-035033070.html

By Jackson Belove

https://blog.qtum.org/cold-wallets-and-safe-send-f1541ec1a58




Using a Qtum cold wallet with Safe Send or using the Qtum Explorer to send raw transactions provides advanced security options for QTUM transactions.

An offline cold wallet provides a high level of security similar to a hardware wallet; both isolate private keys offline and provide a way to approve and sign transactions without exposure to the internet. A cold wallet is “air-gapped” from the internet while a “hot wallet” is connected to the internet and the Qtum network, either directly through a full node (Qtum Core wallet) or a light wallet connecting through an API to a server node. Because hot wallets are online, they have a higher risk profile due to potential exposure to malware, hackers, etc.


Qtum Transactions

A basic Qtum transaction is built in three steps:

1. Compose the base transaction: from address, to address, amount, fee.

2. Sign the transaction using a private key.

3. Transmit the signed transaction to the network.

The Qtum web wallet “Safe Send” isolates these steps between two computers/wallets, where step two is performed with an offline wallet. “Safe Send” guides through these three steps to make a very safe transaction using the offline wallet. The full step-by-step
procedure is given in the wallet documentation and this blog will give an overview of the steps and describe how and why they work.


Offline Wallet

We start by making the offline wallet (explained in the manual, also see below for a Chromebook idea) and then use the offline wallet to create a new Qtum address. The wallet picks a new random private key and creates a new Qtum address from this private key. Copy the Qtum address to an online wallet (a USB thumb drive works fine) and send some QTUM to this address.

You can send to an offline wallet because QTUM “coins” are stored as transactions on the blockchain. For example, if the Qtum address is “Qmycoldwalletaddress” we can send transactions to that address and the amount sent will be permanently written into the blockchain. Transactions never send coins for storage in a wallet, which would never work because the wallet is offline and can’t receive transactions or even see the blockchain. Paper wallets work the same way (paper is always offline).

Now we can use the three steps for a Safe Send.

1. Compose the base transaction with the online wallet.

On the online wallet Safe Send page fill in the transaction details: from address, to address, amount and fee:






The online wallet will compose a simple text file with this data:





A critical piece of data the online wallet provides is the transaction ID for the “From” address for a transaction which holds enough unspent QTUM. Since the online wallet can read the blockchain it can search out one (or more) previous transactions (sent to the “From” address). Copy this “raw” transaction file to the offline computer.

2. On the offline wallet, we use the “Safe Send” function for step 2 which is signing the transaction. This is where the cryptocurrency magic happens: because the offline wallet holds the private key for the “From” address, it can create a hash to validate the transaction.

The signed transaction is a long hexadecimal character string, which gives all the details for the transaction, including the script operation codes to verify and execute the transaction.

3. To finish the Safe Send, copy the signed transmission file back to the online wallet and send the signed transaction to the Qtum network.

The block reward winning node for the next block will execute the script for the transaction, and if everything checks out, will publish the transaction in that next block, completing the transaction.

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A good offline computer is a Chromebook. These have the Chrome browser installed, so you just have to copy over the Web Wallet HTML file. A Chromebook is a less expensive way to have a dedicated offline computer:





Explorer — Send Raw Transaction

Another option for completing the Safe Send transaction is to use the Explorer for step 3 to send the signed raw transaction. Copy the signed raw transaction file to the online computer. On the Explorer qtum.info select MISC — SEND RAW TRANSACTION. Copy and paste the raw transaction hex string into the field, press the Submit button, and you will see a confirmation with the transaction ID and transaction details.





References

1. Qtum Web Wallet manual, Safe Send https://github.com/qtumproject/documents/blob/master/en/QTUM-WebWallet-usage/README.md#safe-sendhttps://github.com/qtumproject/documents/tree/master/en/QTUM-WebWallet-usage

2. QTUM Tutorial: Building a Contract Calling Raw Transaction https://blog.qtum.org/qtum-tutorial-building-a-contract-calling-raw-transaction-1d17b6f5a1b4

Nice to see that work is underway. Now, such lazy people like me can get acquainted with the roadmap of the project and not bother with questions

qtum please wake up and start climbing up  

Development Updates (April 15 - 21)

https://qtum.org/en/post/development-updates-april-15-21

2019-04-22 19:37

Qtum Core

Qtum core updates normally consist of Qtum Improvement Protocols. These QIPs are generated by both our developers and the community and in some cases requests from enterprise users. Our developers evaluate the impact of each QIP and work on high priority QIPs. All bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been issued to the core project will be listed here.

    *Testing QIP-5,6,7,9;
    *Transplant the qtum bitcore RPC to Qtum Core which can be enabled in specific compilation options;
    *Investigate the monitoring and early alert mechanism of the main network.

Qtum x86 Virtual Machine

The Qtum X86 Virtual Machine is a smart contract operating software that is designed to enable easily deployable decentralized applications. Currently you can write smart contracts in C, there will be additional languages as we proceed with x86 development.

    *Continue to implement simpleABI;
    *Add the simpleABI image in qtum-docker;
    *Create the testnet repository of qtum-x86 , qtumproject/qtum-x86;
    *Update x86 documentation on https://x86.qtum.org/;
    *Update x86VM task list: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/labels/x86

Enterprise version -- Unita

The enterprise version of Qtum, featuring high TPS (Transactions Per Second) and short confirmation time for blocks. Unita also features easy end user customization per specific business chain requirements.

Published all code, tools, website, and documentation of Unita online

    *Homepage : https://unita.network/
    *Explorer : https://explorer.unita.network/
    *Faucet : https://faucet.unita.network/
    *One-click Blockchain: https://chain.unita.network/#/
    *Unita Document: https://doc.unita.network/en/Unita-Quick-Start/
    *Survey the deployment of Unita.

Qtum Explorer & Wallets

The Qtum Explorer is our blockchain explorer that is used for viewing transaction details on the Qtum blockchain. The primary blockchain explorer site is qtum.info. We frequently release updates to both explorer and the web wallet sites. Additionally, you’ll find information regarding the official Qtum electrum wallet and support/feature updates to hardware wallets or other interesting services/products

Qtum.info Explorer

Compatible with most insight- apis, for the details please refer the document https://github.com/qtumproject/qtuminfo-insight

PC Wallet

Prototype design for the new PC wallet
Trezor Qtum support

Work on Qtum support in trust wallet library;

Qtum Website

Change the flow of joining full nodes incentive program. Add a page to check status.

Qtum Testing

Ready to merge to Qtum main repo; New testing plan;

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Your mksto in the top 5 cryptocurrency !!!! Marketing is needed and once again a marketing project can already be said powerful !!! Now only an investor is needed.

The project is really very very good !!! and the team competently and responsibly approaches the work and implementation of the plans. Only one thing confuses me I bought a lot of qtum for $ 20 and right now and $ 3 is not worth it, why so cheap? of the project it's a shame to see the cost of ethereum and the cost of qtum ....

Many thanks for such information. But for my country, this is not realistic, because periodically I turn off electric power(((

We can confirm Stephen worked for Qtum as a developer, but we will not discuss the details of his departure. The Qtum Foundation and Team have no association with DREP, past or present.