Hello everyone,


Just wanted to post an update.


We are currently working on Qortal 2.0! This version will have HUGE ease-of-use improvements, 'infinite' scalability, and much more!

• Automatic Bootstrapping
• Automatic backup and restore of tradestates and minting accounts
• New Node type - 'top only sync' - using less than 1GB total disk space
• Flat file archive for full nodes - making full nodes ~10GB instead of 25-60+ - will be able to port over bootstraps to Qortal Data upon release in version 3.0 (by end of the year.)
• Multiple little bugfixes and improvements, including a final fix for 'stuck blocks' in previous versions
• Preparation for Qortal Data Nodes addition within the next couple months in version 3.0

MANY exciting things coming for Qortal by the end of 2021, including Web and application hosting, and public data storage in our own custom data storage system!

Version 2.0 will be officially released in the upcoming week, and a beta version is available now.

Download the Qortal 2.0 beta jar from - https://cloud.qortal.org/s/rgYnbTrrrPpsraA/download/qortal-2.0.0-beta.6.jar

if you have issues with that link you can also use - https://bootstrap.qortal.org/qortal-2.0.0-beta.6.jar


to run new beta simply

-STOP qortal
-DOWNLOAD above file
-RENAME the file to qortal.jar
-REPLACE your existing qortal.jar
-START qortal

**The first run, if you have an existing db, will re-structure your db into the new ARCHIVE format, saving a lot of space. But it takes 60-120 minutes to complete, and requires a little extra space for the process itself.

Simply await the completion... or... if you would like to test out the auto-bootstrapping feature and skip the db archiving process... you can simply delete your db folder, and restart qortal once you have the 2.0 jar in place, and the system will automatically download and extract the bootstrap for you. All you will need to do after that is re-add your minting key to your node.


You can also wait until the 2.0 release and auto-update takes place, however, the more people we have running 2.0 prior to the auto-update, the better. Thanks!