Quarkcoin 夸克币常用信息说明

Specifications

* 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 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 retargets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)

Downloads

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

Windows Qt wallet 0.8.3r15 (zip):
http://www.qrk.cc/quarkcoin083r15win.zip
    File hashes:
        md5 bf41df82999832f1193d88218e224772
        sha1 4c22f94840a78d9c322322f3c708a6197ed319df

Windows Qt wallet 0.8.3r15 (installer):
http://www.qrk.cc/Quark-0.8.3-r15-Installer.exe
    File hashes:
        md5 f1c43b8e15e5712721e78283fba7b168
        sha1 24d4bd8f2f1ecfd0857406415b63879c5884b452

Max OSX wallet 0.8.3r3 (Built by maxpower)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwfy0rqd3x74o1u/Quarkcoin-Qt-0.8.30-1-Mac.zip

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

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

Web sites

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

Blog -
http://www.quarkcoin.cc/

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

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
* See here for a VPS mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264866.0
* Various optimised standalone miners available

Example quarkcoin.conf file

listen=1
maxconnections=32
gen=1
genproclimit=-1
rpcuser=myusername
rpcpassword=mypassword
rpcport=9999
server=1
daemon=1

Ports

11973 Network port

Please open port 11973 on your router and post your IP here.

Exchanges

Cryptsy - https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/71
Coins-E - https://www.coins-e.com/exchange/QRK_BTC/
BTER - https://bter.com/trade/qrk_btc

Block explorer

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

Pools

feeleep's Pool - http://qrk.coinmine.pl/
ex_mac's Pool - http://qrk.mine-pool.net/
McKenzie Mining - stratum+tcp://qrk.mckenziemining.net:3334 - Stratum only - Proportional Payouts - Variable Difficulty - 2% Fee
Coinpool.de - http://coinpool.de/qrk/
Forkpool - http://qrk.forkpool.com/
javabudd's P2Pool - http://quark.lowend.fm/static/
P2Pool - http://176.221.46.81:8372/static/
P2Pool.org - http://p2pool.org/

Community bounties

Bounty for new websites supporting QRK as a payment method - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325257.0
Bounty for Quark design - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325086.0