Qtum Community & Development Updates Week of November 28th — December 4th
Another busy week for the Qtum team, along with the Decentralized Applications that are building on our platform. Patrick spoke at Cointelegraph’s Blockshow Asia conference, and Miguel is due to speak at the Labit Conference in Colombia today. There was on online event with Patrick Dai and OKEX.com, as well as an AMA on our subreddit with CFun.
Qtum was listed as one of the Blockchains available on the Ledger Nano and Blue devices. We were also one of the 100+ projects listed on Yahoo! Finance earlier this week.
On the development front, our Lead Developer, Jordan Earls has provided some updates, which will be listed near the bottom of this article. We are moving away from the weekly list of development updates, but our progress can be tracked at the Qtum official Github repository.
Qtum DAPP Updates
StormX
While this is not a project building on Qtum, their crowdsale is almost finished. Please remember you can receive a 30% discount when you purchase StormX with Qtum tokens. Please see their website, and the article we wrote about them here:
You can visit their website here:
Robin8
This Qtum Decentralized Application has a working product and customers, they will be tokenizing their business model on our platform. They have an artificial intelligence engine, which profiles and ranks people based on their social media reach, and allows them to monetize their own profiles to advertisers. This completely disrupts the traditional ‘placement advertising’ models that Google and Facebook use, which basically turns their userbase into products, and does not compensate them for their content.
For more information, please see the recent article about this project:
Energo
December 5,2017: Energo Labs has officially become a member of the Philippines Energy Efficiency Alliance (PE2), which consists of other internationally renowed companies including Philips, Engie, Meralco Energy Inc (MServ) among others. As a non-profit, self-governing body, PE2 is dedicated to accelerating the deploayment of energy efficiency (EE), energy saving (EC) and renewable energy (RE) technologies to accelerate the transformation of the energy sector in the Philippines. PE2 is also involved in pushing for policy reform in the Filipino energy sector, has established the Philippine Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (PCE3), and is involved in the enforcement of a policy by the Department of Energy (DOE) on a Substitute EE bill.
By becoming a member of PE2, Energo Labs will get involved in promoting distributed and decentralized energy in the Philippines, reaching a step towards building more Decentralized Autonomous Energy (DAE) communities on a larger scale.
CFun
On Friday, December 1st, CFun held an AMA in two locations; the Qtum subreddit, and on Kakaotalk. Some of the questions from the Korean community were translated and posted on the subreddit. There were a few dozen questions about the project as they head into their crowdsale phase. For more information, please see the thread on the Qtum subreddit, or visit CFun’s website:
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Qtum Now Available on Ledger Devices
Qtum, along with Digibyte and Hcash, are now supported by Ledger hardware wallets. This is likely the safest way to store your tokens, so we recommend that you use either the Qtum QT wallet, or a ledger nano. Never leave your tokens on an exchange.
Please see Ledger’s website for more information:
Qtum Listed on Yahoo! Finance
Qtum, along with 100+ Blockchain projects was listed on Yahoo! Finance. This application has 5 million+ downloads on the Google Play store alone. Here is the download link:
Labitconf 2017
The Qtum team attended Labitconf in Colombia, we also sat on the Alternative Blockchain panel and gave a small presentation. Our CIO, Miguel Palencia, spoke about the Qtum platform. There were about 500 people in attendance at the conference, and the presentation hall was packed for the speech.
If you would like to view the livestream, please visit the Qtum en Espanol Facebook page:
We will post more details about this conference later in a separate article.
Livestream with OKEX.com
On December 5th, our Co-Founder and CEO, Patrick Dai made an appearance with OKEX.com to discuss the Qtum project. Here’s the details from their official Twitter account:
Cointelegraph’s “Blockshow Asia” in Singapore
The Qtum team attended and spoke at this conference in Singapore, a full write up of the event can be found here:
Qtum Co-Founder and CEO, Patrick Dai, gave a speech about Qtum to a decent sized audience. The entire 8 hours of speeches was recorded, but here is a link to the speech from Patrick:
JB395’s “Qtum Mainnet Results: Nov 7th — Dec 3rd
Jackson Belove goes into depth about Orphan blocks this week. As always, he goes above and beyond when explaining how and why this happens. A quick excerpt from his article:
“ Let’s start by considering the nature of distributed peer-to-peer mining by full nodes (wallets) for a generic cryptocurrency. All these wallets are working hard (for Qtum, not so hard) to solve the SHA-256 hash algorithm and win the next block reward. It is inevitable that occasionally two wallets will simultaneously solve for the next block, and both think they will get the block reward.”
To read the entire article (highly recommended) please visit the link below:
Qtum Development Updates
Week of November 27th:
We discontinued the development updates for a while because we were making significantly less changes to the Qtum Core wallet.
We will now continue them on a weekly basis and include details on all development work, not just Qtum Core.
Core Releases:
* Mainnet v1.1.3 - Fixed a bug that caused contact addresses to show in receive token address dropdown
Work Completed:
* [x86/Opcodes] Added several new opcodes to get to i386 ISA support.
* [Mobile/API] Added verification for deleted contracts
* [Mobile/API] Added token transfer history support
* [Mobile/Apps] Add verification prompt when sending qtum to a contract
* [Mobile/Apps] Add support to get name of token
* [Mobile/Apps] Improved QRC20 ABI support
* [Mobile/Apps] Made fee round so that the estimated fee fluctuates less
* [Mobile/Apps] Made sure that staked balance does not count toward spendable balance
* [Mobile/Apps] Added ability to select which address a tx should come from
* [Mobile/Apps] Added balance display for tokens
* [Core/GUI] Fix token address list to not include contact addresses
* [x86/Toolchain] Got a minimal version of the i386-qtum-gcc compiler working with a minimal libc
* [x86/Testbench] Testbench can now load and parse ELF32 files
* [x86/Tests] Wrote test-suite utilities to make testing opcodes in x86CPU as easy as possible.
* [Core/Documentation] Completed 2 documents for using Qtum
* [Mobile/Apps] Added description of parameter types for contracts
* [Insight] Added page for rich list
* [Insight] Fixed a bug when searching by address
* [Insight] Show Network Weight in UI
* [Insight] Unify contract and non-contract search function
* [Mobile/Apps] Fixed some UI bugs from the addition of themes
* [Mobile/Apps] Improved README documentation
* [API/QtumJS] Extended QtumJS to support long-polling when checking for transaction confirmations
Work In-Progress:
* [Core/GUI] Working on a complete revamp of the theme and layout for the Qtum Core wallet
* [Core/RPC] Improving RPC interface to add waitforlogs command and long-polling support
* [Core/VMs] Working on massively refactoring the VM interface to be clean to clear the way for the x86 VM being integrated later
* [Mobile/API] Adding ability to determine if a portion of balance is in stake
* [x86/Tests] Porting "test386.asm" test suite (open source project built specifically to test x86 VMs)
* [Core/DB] Upgrading LevelDB to 1.20 to fix a known issue that is triggered by -log-events
* [x86/Opcodes] Refactoring most math opcodes to be cleaner and have correct logic
* [x86/Tests] Adding flag and behavior tests for math opcodes
* [x86/Opcodes] Continuing to add more opcodes to support the full i386 ISA
* [Mobile/Apps] Adding support for calling constant functions in contracts
* [Insight] More work on improving token interfaceThank You!
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