Quote from: tyz on June 03, 2020, 11:53:18 AM

Thanks for the update, Crowetic! I am very curious about what comes with the project soon after waiting years to see Qora/Qortal's resurrection of the dead

Quote from: crowetic on June 02, 2020, 04:08:50 PM

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The sentence irritates me a bit. Aren't almost all blockchains based on an SQL or relational database?

Quote from: crowetic on June 02, 2020, 04:08:50 PM

With a blockchain that runs on a SQL database, we can easily support applications utilizing the chain, or a separate 'asset chain' that is launched by any person/group wishing to, with its own set of 'rules' goverened by the 'groups' system on the chain.

Thank you... also, so you know, there is NOTHING of the original QORA left, as of 2 weeks ago, we have removed every bit of it, other than the ability to read the broken hash required to get the QORA public keys so we can import and show QORA addresses into Qortal... from Qortal.

We have literally written EVERYTHING from scratch. That might be part of the reason the project took a while to come to fruition.

Also, as far as the db... no... the other databases are NOT like ours. We literally use a SQL db... I know no other blockchain that uses one. If you do, then I am mistaken, however... our chain is much more flexible and able to adapt, we are not 'stuck' to any one thing, like a mining algo. The chain can be updated on the fly by vote of the community followed by submission and approval of the developer group on-chain. With a specialized transaction.

I have plans to allow the creation of assets with their own chains that can be used directly to power applications.

You will see what I mean if you take a look at what we have already.

We have reset the testnet chain, and I posted about it on the blog http://qortal.org.

We are keeping everything pretty quiet as far as public announcements, until we launch the auto-update on the mainnet that will push Genesis and start the forever chain on mainnet.

But if you are in the discord, you will see all the updates, or pay attention to the website's blog for the important updates I post there.

Within the next few days we will restart the testnet again, and I will update the download on the blog (we are not doing it on github for now since we are so actively changing things it is much easier to keep track of this way and allow us a bit more control over the releases until we hit Genesis. Of course the source code is always available, we just aren't allowing the UI to be installed locally until Genesis, since the mainnet chain and the testnet chain are currently incompatible with one another, but mainnet is running to allow people to gain in level for Genesis that will keep the level.

So right now we're a bit all over the place due to the pace at which we're adding new features that require hardforks, and the lack of the hardfork code currently available, since we believe at the moment that would be a waste of developer time.

I am FIRMLY to the point where I am VERY confident. I believe EVERYONE will love th platform, and find a ton of use cases for it. I am truly excited to get Genesis pushed, and allow the world a glimpse of what it is we've been building.