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)
* A new POW/POS+MN distribution scheme, Inflation rate ~3.5%

Downloads

Release 0.10.7.7
https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

Windows Qt wallet
https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

Win64
https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

Mac OSX
https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

Linux
https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

Recent release history

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

AEX: https://www.aex-global.com/
Exrates: https://exrates.me/trading/QRKBTC
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/
Slack invite - Here
Slack - http://quarkcoin.slack.com
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/QuarkCoin
Telegram - https://t.me/Quarkcoincommunity
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Quark_revive

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/
Cryptohamstr Pool: https://cryptohamstr.com/

Standalone miners CPU & GPU

CPU Miners
Downloads : https://github.com/mami001/main/releases/tag/v2

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.

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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