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Re: [ANN] [QRK] Quark | cPoW | PC mining | Stability
by
dragonseer
on 16/05/2014, 13:56:44 UTC
Quark
Cryptocurrency standard for the future.

Android Mobile Wallet Beta on Google Play store

Download - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hashengineering.quarkcoin.wallet

Vitals

* 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. (cPoW)
* 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 ~ 1 million QRK p.a. (~ 0.5% p.a inflation)
* Difficulty re-targets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)


Downloads

Source code:
https://github.com/MaxGuevara/quark

Windows Qt wallet 0.8.3r23 (zip):
https://mega.co.nz/#!x9MhAZgB!YI34YN4DAwUq3Opj27xFiXcdL-SpXvIigPMdvVrU07o
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2suklup05eo5ut/quarkcoin083r23win.zip
    File hash: MD5 4127E71A099B0284D5437262092322E3

Windows Qt wallet 0.8.3r22 (zip):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iylo20ftb9ar158/quarkcoin083r22win.zip
https://mega.co.nz/#!YhMT1a5Q!ptxW34q33_83Xa5lH0LQNWTASGH8lvBpk0_sUDXP2mw
  File hash: MD5 9F925ED13A6BF12320E9BFB019581353

Windows Qt wallet 0.8.3r15 (installer):
http://www.qrk.cc/Quark-0.8.3-r15-Installer.exe
    File hash: MD5 f1c43b8e15e5712721e78283fba7b168

Max OSX wallet 0.8.3r16 (Built by maxpower)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jqf4fpw5enkdw2j/Quarkcoin-Qt-0.8.3.16-Mac.zip

11 May 2014 - r23 - Windows wallet update: Checkpoint. Minor bug fixes. Single .exe (statically linked libraries).
08 Apr 2014 - r22 - Windows wallet update: OpenSSL fix. Chinese update. UPNP. QR codes. Checkpoint.
17 Mar 2014 - r20 - Winndows wallet and Github source code updated. Solo mining UI and seed nodes.
11 Mar 2014 - r18 - Windows wallet and Github source code updated. Checkpoints and seed nodes.
13 Jan 2014 - r16 - Mac OSX wallet updated.
23 Dec 2013 - r15 - Windows wallet and Github source code updated.
21 Dec 2013 - r13 - Windows wallet and Github source code updated. Automatic checkpointing.
18 Dec 2013 - r11 - Windows wallet and Github source code updated. Checkpoints and alert keys.
03 Dec 2013 - r6 - Windows wallet and Github source code updated. Checkpoints and seed nodes.


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

yield example ~:

FX8430 8 core - 860k# ~
i7 4770k          - 800K# ~


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
Stonefoz's miner (source code) - http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark.zip http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark2.zip


GPU miners: **UPDATE

SPH-SGminer

Discussion page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=475795.0;all  < please check in on this discussion page for latest, GPU miners are new.
Windows downloads: http://ul.to/5xlcv75a  by DJstone corrected diff errors - his forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=290178 QRK address is in his sig for thank you tips.
Source: https://github.com/DJstone/sph-sgminer

Yield example ~

R2 290x    - 2.4M# ~
HD7950   - 1.6M# ~


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

Pools

Suprnova pool - https://qrk.suprnova.cc/ 0% fees
e-pool  - http://e-pool.net
ex_mac's Pool - http://qrk.mine-pool.net/
Forkpool - http://qrk.forkpool.com/
P2Pool.org - http://p2pool.org/
feeleep's Pool - http://qrk.coinmine.pl/

HashCows - http://https://hashco.ws

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 simple instructions from each discussion topic
We recommend using a pool such as qrk.suprnova.cc to spread hash rate.
* See here for a VPS mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264866.0
* Various optimised standalone miners available


Exchanges

http://www.qrk.cc/exchanges/

Major exchanges:
Quark - CNY   BTC38
Quark - USD   Vault of Satoshi
Quark - Euro   LiteBit

Quark - BTC  BTER
Quark - LTC  Cryptsy

Businesses Accepting Quark

http://www.qrk.cc/merchants/


Block explorer

http://qrk.blockr.io/
http://quarkexplorer.com/
http://block.lowend.fm/chain/Quarkcoin
http://explorer.andarazoroflove.org/quark/block_crawler.php

Projects & Community

http://forum.qrk.cc/
http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin
http://weibo.com/quarkroar
http://www.quarkfoundation.cc/projects


Web sites

Quark -
http://www.qrk.cc/
www.qrk.cc/press

Quark Foundation -
http://www.quarkfoundation.cc/

Blogs -
http://kolinevans.wordpress.com/

Forums -
http://forum.qrk.cc/

Twitter -
@Quark_QRK
@QuarkPress

Other Twitter -
@Qrkfoundation
@Kolin_Quark
@JamesZ_QrK


Video and Media

What is Quark?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrNnrvet7Ao

The Quark Coin Theory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwEy8eg7Ac

Trying to see where it says "Quark is the ASIC resistant coin!", no luck so far  Roll Eyes

Also, security is an ongoing issue for any coin? Again, ASICs don't increase security unless you factor in how they are distributed, this can lead to coins being less secure if hardware/hashpower is owned by just a few people.