Quark 0.10.8.0

Specifications

* No pre-mine
* Super secure hashing
9 rounds of hashing from 6 hashing functions
(blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein)
3 rounds apply a random hashing function
* CPU / GPU mining
* Quick block generation: 30 seconds
* 2048 QRK per block (halving every 60480 blocks ~ 3 weeks)
* Block reward will never drop below 1 QRK
* Total of 247 million QRK will be mined in ~6 months, after that ~3.5% p.a inflation
* Difficulty re-targets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)
*

Downloads

Source code
https://github.com/astera33/quark/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.8.0.zip
https://github.com/astera33/quark/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.8.0.tar.gz

Release 0.10.8.0
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/tag/v0.10.8.0

Windows Qt wallet
Win32
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-qt-win32.zip
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-daemon-win32.zip

Win64
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-qt-win64.zip
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-daemon-win64.zip

Mac OSX
to come

Linux
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-qt-linux16.04.zip
https://github.com/astera33/quark/releases/download/v0.10.8.0/quark-0.10.8.0-daemon-linux16.04.zip

Recent release history

02 Oct 2024 - 0.10.8.0: Removal of MN. Return to POW/POS + update code
07 Mar 2022 - 0.10.7.7: Merge capability after short-fork optimization
10 Dec 2021 - 0.10.7.6: Optimize POS block disturbance to the chain
01 Nov 2021 - 0.10.7.5: Optimize mining of superblocks
10 Oct 2019 - 0.10.7.4: Masternode upgrade
21 Jun 2019 - 0.10.6.5: Optimize POW/POS code
29 Nov 2017 - 0.10.6.3: Enable POS by default
27 Nov 2017 - 0.10.6.2: Disconnect old peers, disable POS by default
13 Oct 2017 - 0.10.6.1: Hybrid POS/POW upgrade
03 May 2017 - 0.10.4.5: Checkpoints
22 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.4: Improved syncing
21 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.3: Disconnect old peers - Required upgrade for all Quark 0.9 wallets
09 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.2: Start signalling for BIP66 (strict DER checking)
02 Apr 2017 - 0.10.4.1: Core 0.10 upgrade
15 Jun 2016 - 0.9.2.7: Update (Checkpoint, Win installlers, OSX build)
06 Oct 2015 - 0.9.2.6: Checkpoint
11 Sep 2015 - 0.9.2.5: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
31 May 2015 - 0.9.2.4: Checkpoint. Update seed nodes.
18 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.3: MedianTime fix. Checkpoint.
17 Jan 2015 - 0.9.2.2: Checkpoint, OpenSSL fix.
25 Oct 2014 - 0.9.2.1 released.


Exchanges

FinexBox: https://www.finexbox.com/market/pair/QRK-BTC.html
FreiExchange: https://freiexchange.com/market/QRK/BTC


Block explorers

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/qrk/

Links

Home - https://quarkcoin.info/
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin
Telegram - https://t.me/Quarkcoincommunity
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Quark_revive
Discord - https://discord.gg/brT3fnMypb


Mining Pools

0769: https://0769.it/site/mining
pool.scrypt.ovh: https://pool.scrypt.ovh/
WinPool: https://pools.win/site/mining
REaL Pool: http://mine.realpool.eu/
Zpool: https://zpool.ca/


Standalone miners CPU & GPU

CPU Miners

Cp3u Miner

Discussion page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=353448.0
Downloads : http://sourceforge.net/projects/philosopherstone/files/QRK/  (for Windows etc)
Source: https://github.com/palmd/Cp3u

Other CPU miners

Neisklar's Quark version of CPU Miner (source code): https://github.com/Neisklar/quarkcoin-cpuminer
Original release of Neisklar's Quark CPU Miner (source code) - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wVXhULTFEOWMtaTQ/edit?usp=sharing

GPU miners

SPH-SGminer

Discussion page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0  < please check in on this discussion page for latest, GPU miners are new.
Source: https://github.com/prettyhatemachine/sph-sgminer

Smolen's GPU miner thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=310975.0


Solo Mining instructions

* Launch your wallet with -gen=1, or add "gen=1" to your quarkcoin.conf file, or type "setgenerate true -1" from the debug console


Pool Mining instructions

* Get CPU or GPU miner from above links
* Follow instructions from each discussion topic
* VPS mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264866.0
* Various optimised standalone miners available

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