Did quark become susceptible to ASICs? It seemed like a solid algorithm. Were there technical issues, or did the coins themselves just never generate support due to lack of continuing development?
Quark was massively premined and that put investors off. Other coins like secure coin are using similar algorithms to quark and their networks have been working for years. They normally give their algorithms different names to the quark one but they are essentially the same.
It may have been instamined to a certain degree but nothing like some other coins. It's minting phase was short and the developers although keeping it updated to a certain degree did nothing much with it. The fact it was not premined at all led to the devs not caring about it too much. That stephen guy who used to blast coin releases got a huge amount as did a few others but they dumped it hard at the start too.
As far as I know there are no quark asics but I could be wrong. A few coins are using that algo. Dnet and mue are but mue is changing soon. Quarks algo was good at the time took some time for gpu miners to show up publically anyway.
Shame it collapsed and that all we had was cryptsy really at the time which fucked it all up. Put a lot of new investors off of crypto that came in from outside this board. Bill still was convinced but sadly it was dumped hard. It is all but abandoned and polo and bittrex dont even have it listed. All trade is mostly on btc38.
I guess the question is more about its algo rather than the coin. Some still use it.
That is right. It seems that the Quark is like another scam coin. There is no active development of the coin now.