Qtum Community & Development Updates Week of December 5th — 13th, 2017
Another great week for the Qtum project, lots of updates and a new Decentralized Application. A new optional wallet update was released, which adds some user friendly functionality for working with the QT interface. We are awaiting an official announcement from the United Bitcoin team about distribution rates regarding the January 3rd airdrop. Thank you for your patience. We may release a shorter weekly update around Christmas, but the team will not be traveling or attending shows due to the holiday season.
Internet Governance Forum: Switzerland
Qtum Co-Founder, Patrick Dai, will be speaking at the IGF event. He will also be available as a Resource Person, for anyone looking to discuss Blockchain related topics.
From IGF’s website:
“The session will focus on the blockchain technology and digital currency development in different nations and some use case or examples will be shared. The session speakers will handle presentations of particular cases which implement the Blockchain technology, discussing potentialities and challenges that persist within the use of this tool.”
Qtum Decentralized Application Updates
Robin8
We spoke earlier about this project in last week’s updates. Robin8 has been busy lately promoting their upcoming crowdsale. They did an online AMA on Kakaotalk for the Korean community, along with a live presentation in Seoul. Just recently they were in Hangzhou to speak at the Alibaba E-Commerce Conference:
There was also an interview done with Ryan Lye from Cryptogrinders, which you can watch on Youtube:
If you would like more information about this project, please see this article:
To join their Telegram channel, click the link below:
AWARE
Recently, AWARE announced its plan for a Qtum-based development of their investment management platform for digital assets, aimed to boost the liquidity of innovative assets and to serve blockchain entrepreneurs across the globe.
AWARE consists of the Token Fund Products (TFP), Token Fund Service (TFS) and Innovative Ecological Service (IES), with the three parts collaboratively operating through the Economic System of Community (ESC). It’s committed to the establishment of a brand new Tokenized Investment Community (TIC) that is participatory with professionalism, high efficiency, and optimal liquidity. With these mixed attributes, its token AWR not only has various business use cases, but mobilizes the the community by incentivizing its investors and entrepreneurs to bring in resources. Every AWR holder is in the meantime the sharer of community assets, the users of community services, the contributors as well as beneficiaries of community ecosystem.
For more information, please visit the link below:
Vevue
Vevue has just added more events to their tasks list, which is essentially a bounty program. Their crowdsale has only 27,000 Qtum blocks before being complete, and so far they have raised quite a bit. Click the link below to
To speak with the Vevue team directly, please join their Telegram:
CFun
An upcoming airdrop is being hosted by CFun and LoMoStar:
You can find out more about this event in the CFun Telegram channel:
For more information about CFun, please see this article:
Qtum Raspberry Pi Wallet User Interface
Special thanks to community developer “Trev” who wrote a nice web based frontend for the Raspberry Pi Qtum wallet. This allows users who want a personalized Qtum web wallet that doesn’t rely on a third party to host their own.
Here is the Github repository:
You can join the official Telegram channel here:
Qtum Listed on Huobi Pro
We were listed on Huobi Pro this month. Thank you! Here is a link to the exchange:
Jackson Belove’s Qtum Weekly Report
This week, Jackson delves into the Mempool discussion. This is fine Blockchain literature, and we highly encourage you to read these articles to get a better understanding of the technology that powers Qtum. Here’s an excerpt:
“This week the educational feature covers the mempool (memory pool), which holds unconfirmed transactions before they are published to the blockchain. These unconfirmed transactions will accumulate in the mempool (and they are shown on the home page of the Qtum Explorer) until the next block, when most of them are swept up and published to the blockchain.”
Qtum x86 Virtual Machine Progress
This VM is based on a project made by Jordan Earls with the original goal of fully emulating the 8086 processor. It has now been adapted into a specialized VM for running smart contracts and other untrusted code.
The instruction set to eventually be supported is a modified version of i686 with most system-level and ring0 opcodes removed. It also might support the standard i686 FPU instructions (TBD).
This implementation will have far reaching effects on the Blockchain industry, casting a wider net of opportunity for developers worldwide.
You can track our progress on Github:
Please note that the product is in early alpha stages, we are working to get a prototype ready in 2018.
New Optional Qtum Wallet Update
v0.14.11 — Optional Update
- Changed our versioning scheme to be consistent and avoid the two version number confusion
- Add feature to restore wallet in the Qt wallet
- Add new RPC call “waitforlogs” that is particularly useful for Dapp developers
- Add long-polling support to the gettransaction RPC call
Qtum in the Press
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