-Announcement- LTC and PRESENCE on Qortal testnet - will be opening to community testing today!As above notes, we are testing LTC and PRESENCE on the testnet now, and I will be opening it up to community testing as soon as few finishing touches are done on the UI.
I will provide a fully pre-configured testnet node, with a sync'd chain (or close) as well as a pre-compiled pre-release version of the UI, that users will be able to run with yarn and node.js installed on their system.
Also, version 1.3.8 is a hotfix version for the stuck block 212936 issue, if you're already past that block, you don't need to worry about updating to 1.3.8, but if you're not, and you are stuck on 212936, the update will fix the issue, and/or the bootstrap I provided in Discord a while back.
Version 1.4.0 will be the release that contains LTC and PRESENCE, after testing on the testnet, we will push it out.
Grease under my earlobe created a thick pimple right underneath. What were u saying? Wallets, space, storage la-la-la, be-be-be - is this what u are saying? First u dont need to undertake any research activities, Qort chain is smart enough to research u, a human, instead. Its fine that Qort is just a wreath of stink from old mans feet, we dont dare to ask for more while Qort is in this nascent stage. Secondly, that atomic swaps are not yet enabled in Qort engine fizzled out a great many investors, thus do expect dumps.
I was asking a pertinent question. Sincerely, your post doesn't make much sense. The capabilities QORT offer to the public are exactly what we miss in the crypto space. Where else can you trade in a true decentralized manner without having to depend on any third-party server or custody (in the case of centralized exchanges)?
as far as the answer to your question... as it sits right now, with LTC and BTC support anyway, we make use of the Electrum network.
This means we do NOT need full nodes for LTC or BTC in order to have a local wallet, and issue transactions to the network.
Now, in the future when handling a coin that does NOT have electrum support, this may change. However, as of now there is no concern over size... as we do not need a full node for any of the networks that run with Electrum.
Also, to address that
very strange reply...
for one... you are incorrect... we DO have working cross-chain trades with BTC... however, if a seller shuts his node down the trade cannot complete, and thus the trade is listed, accepted, then refunded due to the selling party being offline...
This is the exact reason for the development of PRESENCE. PRESENCE will show the response every 30 minutes, of the seller nodes. therefore, we are able to tell if a node hasn't replied during the last round of PRESENCE transactions, and is likely offline. Then, we put a red dot by the sells that are likely offline, so that users no longer accept sells from offline sellers.
This should dramatically improve the scenario wherein a refund is necessary.
Also, with the change to LTC, we get a MUCH FASTER, MUCH CHEAPER network (LTC network over BTC) to deal with, and therefore we will have trades that are CHEAPER THAN CENTRALIZED EXCHANGES.
We firmly believe the improvements will be VERY NOTICEABLE, and LTC market will really kick things off...
If this then says people will dump... I think that's the silliest response to a dramatic improvement and new version I have seen in quite a while, but to each their own I guess.
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