Thanks for all the input and offers of support.
Many ideas have been floated here, most of them good. We will have to prioritize what is most important for Quark at this stage.
My feeling is that some kind of POS/POW hybrid would improve the security of the network and should be the first priority.
I would like to focus my time on investigation the technical issues with the different POS implementations before going ahead.
I also support some other ideas bought up here like on-chain governance and master nodes, but this could be next steps.
There are many ways to contribute so please post your ideas here or in slack.
Max, it is very nice to see you back here after all this time. I am definitely happy to see these ideas being seriously considered as concrete next steps for the coin - it at one time had a very rich ecosystem surrounding it, and it would be nice to see that again. I very much look forward to discussing further on next steps and look forward to the necessary changes being implemented. I agree wholeheartedly now, as I did then, that blockchain security is the primary consideration, but would definitely agree with the above commentators that many further additions, such as master nodes, etc should be under serious consideration to be implemented to modernize the coin.