Qortal Blockchain Project – https://qortal.org
Qortal Reaches Next Era

January 9th 2024 – Qortal Core version 4.4.1 – Qortal UI Version 4.4.4

Qortal Blockchain Project – Ready for Large Adoption

2024 – The Year of Qortal

The time has finally come for the Qortal project to get the recognition it deserves, as the world’s ONLY truly decentralized parallel ecosystem. Not only does the project have more decentralized functionality than any other in history, it now has the required ease-of-use features it needs to reach a much wider audience.

From installation to being notified if your node is behind, and a ‘Refresh’ button to resolve that issue within 5 minutes, there are no longer any excuses for not leveraging the power of the world’s only truly decentralized, truly parallel economic system and parallel digital infrastructure.

Why Use Qortal? 

This question is self-explanatory to some, and more difficult to others. The need for a truly parallel system is obvious to those who have been banned, shadow banned, or otherwise removed from social media and video publishing platforms, but maybe not quite as obvious to others. So, let’s explore the reasons…

• • Content Unable to be Censored, not censorship resistant, censorship PROOF.
  • Host an App, or a website, for free, indefinitely.
  • No hosting fees, no domain fees, no DNS at all.
  • Leverage existing Q-Apps to build your own rebranded version, or simply gain access to the global Qortal community. Create Q-Shops, sell items and services directly P2P without fees, create a Q-Fund to fund your next project in an automated decentralized fashion,  built on unstoppable infrastructure,  publish videos on Q-Tube or blog posts on Q-Blog, share files on Q-Share, and much more. Discover other community-built Q-Apps and Websites and introduce yourself to the digital future.
  • Obtain redundant backup copies of your data from viewers of your content, or followers.
  • Completely remove reliance upon third parties, no third party fees for anything.
  • Directly P2P interactions in every aspect. Don’t need middlemen of any kind. How decentralization was supposed to be.
  • No KYC or any sort of ‘enforced reporting’ to or from anyone. Beauty of real decentralization.
  • Obtain QORT rewards by simply running your full node (computer with Qortal installed).
  • Content creators truly own their content, and can sell their entire digital presence if they choose. New owner picks up where the old left off without any further configuration.
  • Trade directly cross-blockchain from layer 1 to layer 1, local wallets controlled only by you. Multiple supported cryptocurrencies. No wrapping, no tokens, no bridges.
  • Fully individual control in every regard.
  • Provide your goods and services to a global network of users. 
  • CrowdFund your Projects without any intermediary taking fees.
  • Create a digital presence on the internet of the future, that will last forever. 
  • Build your community on a platform that cannot be hacked or taken down.
  • Achieve all of this and more with the use of a single low-powered computer running on a solar panel, or any typical computer running in any typical fashion, fully open for you to decide.

The above are only a small set of reasons to use Qortal. Qortal is the future of all things digital. If you care about freedom, privacy, and security in the digital world, Qortal is the only true parallel solution, capable of providing solutions to everything you use your computer for on a regular basis.

Empower Yourself

Either create and publish your own universe, or leverage the existing features. Earn and Empower yourself, or accomplish tasks for Qortal Development Group and obtain QORT rewards for your efforts.

Anyone who can provide such assistance, if it pans out, will be rewarded with QORT, the native coin of the new digital world.

Any other type of assistance is also rewarded with QORT:

• Development
• Promotion
• Artistic talents
• etc.

Earn by yourself, or with collaboration with the other community members and the Qortal Development Group, the choice is yours.

Earn your way into the Qortal Development group and be one of the ‘final signatures’ required for updates to take place. Do you have an interest in building a better future? Have any sort of development talent? This is your community. 

Check Out Some Recent Qortal Media 

Below are some links to recent media made available on Q-Tube, from the Qortal Community and Qortal Development Group. Come see why now is the time for the Qortal project to obtain the recognition and growth it deserves. (All video links below are published on Q-Tube, hosted fully on Qortal’s decentralized network, these links are accessible through a ‘gateway node’ from the internet.)

Qortal Promo video – Community member created promotional overview – on Q-Tube

Q-Tube ‘Qortal Nuggets’ videos – Short videos with information about Qortal – on Q-Tube

Q-Tube Qortal Think Tank chats – longer community discussions about recent Qortal topics – on Q-Tube

Qortal information by crowetic – How-To videos and information by crowetic – hosted on Qortal

https://qortal.dev – Q-App development focused website – learn to develop on Qortal with typical web development languages easily. also Qortal Programmer Video Tutorials.

Tired of so many data, privacy and security issues on the current internet? Tired of censorship and overreaching regulations affecting your daily life? Being targeted by DDOS attacks or other internet security concerns? Wishing there was a better option for the digital world that removes the potential for these issues completely? Qortal has been being developed for the last 10+ years specifically to resolve the issues that exist in the centralized world. The time has come to evolve past the issues that have plagued the centralized digital world for far too long. Even if you’re merely curious at this point, it only costs you 5 minutes to install the Qortal software, create your account, and become part of the digital future.

Promotional Offer – Install Qortal, reach out, get QORT

An additional promotional offer to any new user. Install Qortal, create an account, and reach out to crowetic – contact information on https://crowetic.com – and crowetic will get you enough QORT to register your first Registered Name and get established in the new digital world. Download Qortal UI from https://qortal.org/downloads 

 

Greetings Qortians! May has passed and as always, more development has been in the works! The community has been growing since Jason Crowe’s interview with Mike Adams on Brighteon (aka The Health Ranger) and we are so excited to have you newcomers join us! 

A community member named Malina has taken the initiative of getting QORT listed on a couple of centralized exchanges (CEXs) for those interested, please remember the golden rule: not your keys, not your crypto. So it is best to always move your assets out of CEXs after using them, and onto secure local wallets like on Qortal!

Crowetic has produced a variety of video tutorials on how to make use of Qortal, along with weekly update videos every Monday for the community to review and prepare for weekly Think Tanks which are every Tuesday (typically at 10am PST). He’s also planning to make Q-App tutorials as part of his bucket list – stay tuned! 

We also have a new dedicated Q-Apps server on Discord!

 

Project Update

QORT Listing on Exchanges

QORT was an untracked listing on Coin Market Cap for quite some time until recently becoming a tracked listing – meaning they now have price information on the listing. This is due to QORT being recently listed on https://vindax.com/ (which is not available to users in the USA and Canada). QORT is also now trading on XeggeX (CEX) with BTC and USDT pairs. https://xeggex.com/market/QORT_USDT. Due to QORT’s listing on XeggeX, QORT is also now a tracked listing on https://coinpaprika.com/coin/qort-qortal/.

We have one more to announce: QORT is now on https://crypto.com/price/qortal. As we see, there will be listings of QORT on exchanges that have their own way of generating ‘price’ so please be sure to understand how pricing actually works for QORT and how you can use the API to generate your own parameters: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=the_qort_coin#how_the_price_of_qort_works

Any listings of QORT on these exchanges does not mean Qortal has any official type of relationship with them, in fact, we always advise against CEXs but members of the community are able to seek out listings on third party exchanges if they’d like. Please be cautious with seeking out listings – as we’ve already seen one before called BTC MAX which worked for a while, then appeared to be a scam which stole QORT and shut down the exchange. There’s also a lot of regulation brewing and we will likely see a lot of exchanges be shut down in the near future, so please keep these things in mind. Most importantly is the golden rule in crypto: not your keys, not your crypto! So it is best to always move your assets out of CEXs after using them, and onto secure local wallets like on Qortal!

Q-Mail

Check out our recently launched Q-Mail on the main net! For now, this is a partial solution for encrypted messaging, for Qortal accounts with registered names ONLY. 25MB capacity on each message for now. Private data transferring in a different way. 

Q-Apps

Calling all JavaScript devs! Qortal blockchain awaits you! Build decentralized apps without the hassle of learning backend languages with easy-to-use APIs, simple and clear documentation, and no hosting fees or gatekeeping. Our vibrant community and powerful APIs make your Web3 building a breeze. Visit www.qortal.dev and embark on your Web3 adventure today!

Interested devs can also join our new Discord server here: https://discord.gg/d7Zg4B2KYw

 Q-Apps Course 

Check out this video course and learn how to create Q-Apps. It does require an intermediate level of understanding of React (JavaScript) since Phillip does not go line by line explaining things. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-mMjj6eP0gg4S1eWCbi6zyIPrISwZk7m

Qortal How-To Video Series 

Crowetic has put together these videos that go through everything from installation to setup of the Qortal UI, Trade Portal, Auto Buy, and more.

The first 9 videos will show you:

1. How to set up Qortal (Linux Machine Demo)
2. Qortal UI installation Differences between different Operating Systems (OSs)
3. Configuring Qortal UI App Image ‘launchers’ on Ubuntu 22 with Cinnamon
4. Creating your first Qortal account (and Qortal Accounts overview) 
5. Understanding Qortal and REAL decentralization
6. How to use Qortal’s local wallets and the Trade Portal
7. Understanding and using the Auto Buy feature in Qortal UI to buy QORT
8. Understanding Qortal Minting and How to Become a Qortal Minter
9. Understanding Qortal Names and Name Registration

 https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Blog/crowetic/blog/Qortal-How-To-Video-Series-IqF6OI 

Or directly through Qortal: //APP/Q-Blog/crowetic/blog/Qortal-How-To-Video-Series-IqF6OI

Social Media

Jason Crowe reveals revolutionary Qortal tech for distributed, censorship-PROOF content, websites…

To learn more, visit: https://qortal.org/ For more updates, visit: http://www.brighteon.com/channel/hrreport…www.brighteon.com

HRR Brighteon News

Crowetic visits the Health Ranger Report Mike Adams Show to inform the audience about Qortal’s features and culture. Both individuals are well-versed in the cybersphere arena and current world events, and both individuals are prompted to guess the future possibilities for humanity as a whole. There are a ton of insightful nuggets in this discussion!

DECENTRALIZE EVERYTHING! Why I am embracing decentralized content and finance (DeFi)

DECENTRALIZE EVERYTHING! Why I am embracing decentralized content and finance (DeFi) For more updates, visit…rumble.com

HRR Brighteon News

Mike Adams rings the bell on dangers with your money and other aspects of freedom while explaining how Qortal is emerging as a brave and formidable alternative. Qortal provides solutions for those in need of defense against the escalating financial restrictions imposed by a system teeming with tyrannical entities and the growing internet censorship of free speech. Watch this one right away!

A Visual Journey Through Qortal Network’s Evolution

Check out the link below for an article written by Dodgers who talks about Qortal’s journey with a specific emphasis on Q-Apps’ inception!

https://medium.com/@dodgersdesign/a-visual-journey-through-qortal-networks-evolution-45f24ac02bb

Monday Update Videos (MUV)

Crowetic has started the MUV series where he will be talking about the latest news and gives the community a chance to prepare their questions or talking points for the Tuesday Think Tanks if they’d like to join. 

Find the MUV series here: https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Blog/crowetic/blog/MUV-May-15-2023-ILkYpU

You can also access via Q-Blog in the UI, under Crowetic’s blog.

Qortal Think Tanks

Get into the brainstorming talks among Crowetic, other co-founders, developers, and the community! These are casual chats open to the public. You can find recordings of these weekly meetings on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

Or in Q-Blogs: https://qortal.link/APP/q-blog/Qortal-Think-Tank/Publishing

Wiki Site Updates

On May 22nd an update was delivered: Remove notes to set topOnly & bindAddress as they are no longer used. Also updated any settings recommendations to account for the current defaults. 

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=wiki_site_updates

Core Node Upgrade

Please make sure you’re on Core version 4.1.2 as any nodes that are on 4.0.3 or below, will be STUCK as of the AT lottery payout block. (This is due to the fact that they did NOT have the AT reshape code that was a REQUIREMENT in order for lottery ATs to function correctly.)

**If your node is on an older version, you will HAVE to update or you will not get synchronized**

SUGGESTION for ALL NODES (even updated ones): It is suggested to set the following setting in your settings.json:

”minPeerVersion”: “4.1.2”

Remember, settings.json is a json file, which follows json syntax — this means that you need a comma after every setting/line, EXCEPT the last one. Windows nodes will edit the **settings.json** in the **%localappdta%\Qortal** — all other nodes will edit the only settings.json in their ‘qortal’ folder. If you’re unsure of how to do so, just ask in one of our tech support channels and someone will be able to assist you.

Future Upgrade Plans

Qortal Mobile App

Nothing official yet but development is in the works for a Qortal mobile app. The next is a message from developer Ido: 

“It’s kind of hard to give a timeframe for when the mobile app that I’m envisioning will be ‘finished’, it depends on many factors, a lot of which cannot be determined ahead of time. Life and the software Gods throw us curve balls sometimes. I will be releasing an Android notifier app, which in its first iteration will give minting reports for a specified account in a specified time interval, the second iteration will include account payment tracking (notifications). Either for DevFund only (to showcase the possibilities) or an account specified by the user after they prove ownership (to alleviate privacy concerns). There are ways to do this without requiring the private key in my app, but that will take some thinking and testing. I can’t give any assurances for further functionalities, but it’s theoretically possible to turn this into an integral Qortal mobile application. Starting with chat, wallet, and names features, maybe add trading (only if connected to a local node), sponsor dashboard QDN integration, and multi-wallet overview, the possibilities are endless. All of these things combined with local mobile notifications would make this a very powerful and convenient tool. But I’m getting ahead of myself again, what I can assure you of is that there WILL be a notifier app, with the first iteration to be released quite soon.”

Reminders

Qortal Community Initiatives

We seek to build solutions! Check out our Community Initiatives here: https://qortal.link/community-initiatives/index.html

Qortal AT Lottery

Be on the lookout for the next decentralized automated lottery within the Qortal UI! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually (it’s all managed by what is called an ‘Automated Transaction’ and often referred to as ‘AT’). In order to buy a lottery ticket, you simply send a set amount of QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal and makes for a great demo! The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI.

Ticket price of previous lotteries: 10 QORT (ticket price is programmable upon AT launch)

Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Crowetic Hardware Development (CHD) 

Custom laptops and QORTector devices utilizing the Raspberry Pi are available at CHD for those interested in a pre-built device! CHD is now also offering a service for you to ship your existing computer and have it upgraded if you’d like! With this service, your computer will be formatted with Linux while also enhanced for security and privacy. You can read more about this new service at: https://crowetic.com/index.php/chd-upgrade/

Final Words

Qortal is intended to be a sovereign platform where new systems can be built securely by utilizing truly decentralized blockchain technology. You do not have to be a computer wizard to take part in this revolutionary project – even by simply running a node, you are helping the network become stronger and more decentralized! As you begin to find answers to your questions, please don’t hesitate to help other newcomers with their questions, as we need to grow our support team on all levels if we seek sustainable adoption. The point being, even the smallest things go a long way and together we are the chain! If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to speak up – whether in our chat forums or weekly Think Tanks! By the way, this June 29th marks our 3 Year Anniversary since Genesis!

Motivational Quote

“Community is about finding people that share the same vision as you.” — Anonymous

Join Us!

Discord: https://discord.gg/UqhQCYjVw2

Twitter: https://twitter.com/qortal_official

Telegram (general chat): https://t.me/qortal_official

Telegram (tech support): https://t.me/qortalchat http://qortal.org/

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Qortal Newsletter Update: May 2023 Edition

Get ready for the next chapter in Qortal’s story! April brought forth a long list of core and UI enhancements including the long awaited Q-Apps! We also have a couple of new interviews to share and have more scheduled in the upcoming weeks – now is a great time to kick our marketing efforts into high gear as we’ve reached a new threshold in Qortal’s capabilities!

Project Update

Q-Apps

The secure by default, easy, and extremely liberating tool for creating apps freely, is live! Q-Apps allow developers the ability to create anything they want, free from any censorship or gatekeeping. All of this is made possible by Qortal’s infrastructure which has no reliance on centralized components or third party tools. Therefore Qortal itself does not have any choke points other than 1) current use of GitHub for our code repository (we backup our files in other locations for now, and have plans for a GitHub Replacement on Qortal) and 2) internet service itself (an alternative internet service solution is also within our roadmap). When it comes to building an application on Qortal, you’ll simply set up a node and account, then be able to build your app without any sort of fees or permission from the network. Your app can even make use of the cryptocurrencies we’ve built support for! The only aspect of gatekeeping when it comes to building apps, are with projects who seek their own asset, in which you will need to submit a proposal summary to the community about your ethical project, and we can get it approved through a process known as ‘asset issuance’. Other than this aspect, building Q-Apps is the new wild west!

Our team is working on Q-Apps technical guides and videos, a dedicated Q-Apps website, and a dedicated Q-Apps server on Discord where our team will assist you where possible. The ultimate goal is to eventually move completely over to Qortal (making Discord obsolete), but Qortal is not quite there yet. Join us!

Q-Apps Website: (Coming Soon)

Q-Apps Discord: https://discord.gg/d7Zg4B2KYw

Current Technical Guide: https://github.com/Qortal/qortal/blob/master/Q-Apps.md

Wiki Overview Page: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=q-apps

Q-Blog

Q-Blog is our first Q-App demo where users can create their own blogs up to 500mb each! No ads, no middlemen, no oversight control! Check out these walk-thru videos on how to use Q-Blog and a few other things such as auto-install in the UI. https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Blog/Q-Blog/qblog/Publishing-Blog-s-SncAO3

New Qortal Node Setup Feature

We are excited to announce that installing Qortal on a computer and turning it into a node, is as simple as downloading the user interface and following the prompts. This new feature streamlines the process of downloading the user interface as well as the core (which has previously been a separate install process). Setting up a node is now a breeze! Simply select the download option for your computer’s operating system at: https://qortal.org/downloads/

Crowetic on QDN

This is a progressive webpage built by Crowetic to be a demo of some of the various functionalities such as QDN Video, QDN Music, and QDN Files possible only in QDN. 

Crowetic’s Qortal Cloud

You now may use the Crowetic’s hosted Qortal Cloud, which is run by his servers and not on Qortal, to create documents such as in the Google Doc platform, Crowetic just enabled the Forms App to do so. Enjoy! https://cloud.qortal.org/apps/forms/s/nATyMYB2fPM88HPQMZoNtPZH

Q-Nect

Qnect 0.1.8 has been released. This is a mobile app for Android, and an app downloadable on Linux and Windows systems. Soon this app will have a notifications feature for unread messages. The developer Ido is planning to write a new version of an app like this which will be written from scratch using software called React – which will make account authentication possible (the ability to safely login with your Qortal account, as the current app only allows for read-only with no login capabilities). Stay tuned!

Download the native build at: https://site.qnect.org/Downloads.html 

Or use the web-based version at: https://www.qnect.org/ 

Future Upgrade Plans

Q-Mail

An email type application is in the works! It’s expected to go live in the next UI release! Here is an overview page about this feature: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=chain_messaging

Q-Tube

Originally, Q-Tube was expected to be part of the Q-Apps launch as a demo along with Q-Blogs. Given the things we’ve run into with Q-Blog videos, and Q-Tube intended to be solely a video platform, the team has been holding off on launching Q-Tube. The current focus is making modifications to the way data is handled, so that when posting larger files whether on Q-Blogs or Q-Tube, we can mitigate the random issues we see at the moment. Stay tuned! It’s all in the works!

Lite Nodes

Eventually we will have ‘Lite Nodes’ where mobile devices will be able to communicate with full nodes on the Qortal Network and be able to make use of nearly everything Qortal has to offer (the Trade Portal will not be an available feature as that requires a full node to conduct true P2P trades). You can read more about the differences between node types and this Lite Node concept at: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=node_types

Mesh Networking

Qortal’s roadmap includes a concept for ‘mesh networking’ which will be an internet service alternative. The team has begun looking into a protocol called Reticulum which seems to be existing technology that already exists and seems to be exactly what we’ve conceptualized so far for Qortal’s Mesh Networking. Therefore, it looks like Qortal will be making use of Reticulum – we thought it would be appropriate to announce this finding although we do not have more information to provide just yet. You can read more about the mesh network concept at: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=mesh_networking

GitHub Replacement 

One of the most important elements for any project is where they collaborate and store their codebase. Coming soon, is GitHub Replacement on Qortal’s infrastructure, not only for our project, for any others that may be interested in having complete control over their repo and no reliance on third parties! You can read more about this concept at: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=github_replacement

Metadata

There are plans to further enhance the speed and scalability of the metadata as well. More info on this coming soon!

Social Media

Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (DAY 1)

Bitcoin #Crypto #Cryptocurrency Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (DAY 1) https://rumble.com/v2iziz6-crypto-mindset-reset-virtual-summit-2-day-1.html

Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (Day 1)

Crowetic made another awesome Qortal introduction as a decentralized ‘Digital Infrastructure Replacement’ for the internet as we know it. Crowetic explains how everyone can make use of the platform, from everyday users to developers! Topics covered include the ability for developers to easily create and publish Q-Apps freely, how Q-Blogs will become a future web builder, Q-Tube’s ability to download videos, a better concept for NFTs, and more! 

This video link was a live stream event with multiple speakers, so you’ll need to skip through if you want to go right to the parts where Crowe speaks. At the time marker 02:05:28 and again at 03:33:16!

Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (DAY 2)

Web3 #Bitcoin #Crypto Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (DAY 2) https://rumble.com/v2j3f0k-crypto-mindset-reset-virtual-summit-2-day-2.html

Crypto Mindset Reset Virtual Summit 2 (Day 2)

Check out CMR Summit2 on day 2, where Crowe provides a walkthrough of Qortal’s UI at the time marker 03:15:58!

Sayer Ji from Green Med Info talks censorship, AI, consciousness and COSMIC FREEDOM with Mike Adams

To learn more, visit: www.Greenmedinfo.com and www.unite.liveFor more updates, visit…www.brighteon.com

Brighteon.com

Shout out to Sayer Ji from Green Med Info who speaks about Qortal with Mike Adams while they discuss a variety of topics including censorship, AI, consciousness, and cosmic freedom!

Qortal Think Tank Meetings

Get into the brainstorming talks among crowetic, other co-founders, developers, and the community! These are casual chats open to the public. You can find recordings of these weekly meetings on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

Or in our Q-Blog: https://qortal.link/APP/q-blog/Qortal-Think-Tank/Publishing

Wiki Updates

The process for how to manually bootstrap has been added to this existing wiki page:  https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=how_to_bootstrap_delete_the_db#manual_bootstrap

The original Chain Messaging page has been converted into the Q-Mail page: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=q-mail

Reminders

Qortal Community Initiatives

We seek to build solutions! Check out our Community Initiatives here: https://qortal.link/community-initiatives/index.html

Qortal AT Lottery

Be on the lookout for the next decentralized automated lottery within the Qortal UI! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually (it’s all managed by what is called an ‘Automated Transaction’ and often referred to as ‘AT’). In order to buy a lottery ticket, you simply send a set amount of QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal and makes for a great demo! The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI.

Ticket price of previous lotteries: 10 QORT (ticket price is programmable upon AT launch)

Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Crowetic Hardware Development “CHD”

Custom laptops and QORTector devices utilizing the Raspberry Pi are available at CHD for those interested in a pre-built device! CHD is now also offering a service for you to ship your existing computer and have it upgraded if you’d like! With this service, your computer will be formatted with Linux while also enhanced for security and privacy. You can read more about this new service at: https://test.crowetic.com/index.php/chd-upgrade/

Final Words 

The next generation of the Internet will not be harvesting your data, as that data simply doesn’t exist on the Qortal Data Network (QDN). Content creators can now have complete control over their work, just as the everyday user can have complete control over their account with wallets, trading, communications, and more! Welcome to the future where Qortal’s technology focuses on restoring individual sovereignty and collective consciousness. With virtually no cost to get started, what are you waiting for?

Motivational Quote

“The world is our oyster.’’ ~Crowetic”

Join Us!

Discord: https://discord.gg/UqhQCYjVw2

Twitter: https://twitter.com/qortal_official

Telegram (general chat): https://t.me/qortal_official

Telegram (tech support): https://t.me/qortalchat http://qortal.org/

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Qortal Newsletter Update: April 2023 Edition

We’re at a major fork in the road in mankind’s story, where we have the opportunity to build alternative systems. Hence Qortal: peer into the future! You are all investing in a viable alternative infrastructure that is being built to stand the test of time. This is no pipe dream, no smoke screen. Our project is nearing the next plateau in its story, where the platform finally unleashes a key element: Q-Apps. This means greater scalability on top of a base platform with incredible underlying tech many have yet to fully understand. 

We’re in a pivotal time where the project needs a push and we’re in preparation for a marketing storm. Please help in whatever form you feel guided. Qortal is here for the outcome, not just a sole income.

Project Update

Qnect App Version 0.1.7

Qnect is a cross platform app that currently offers a read-only option for Qortal’s Q-Chat. Eventually this app will allow users to login and make use of Q-Chat. Qnect is natively available for most Android, Linux, and Windows systems. If you’re using a different platform or are having trouble using the native app on your system, you can always use the (progressive) web app by visiting http://www.qnect.org/ For a more detailed report on the changes you can read the release notes txt file. You can download the Qnect version for your platform at https://site.qnect.org/Downloads.html

Learn more about Q-Nect App here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=qnect_app 

Sneak Peeks

Q-Apps

Q-Apps will be here very soon! To make this awesome feature even better, Crowetic presented a concept to the developers that, when developed, will allow anyone to make use of Q-Apps through gateway nodes like https://qortal.link/crowetic. When accessing through a gateway, it will create you an ‘anonymous account’ automatically allowing you to interact with Q-Apps and giving you the ability to ‘download this account’ to take it with you to use on your node.

Q-Tube

~Coming Soon~ An alternative video hosting application.

Q-Blog

~Coming Soon~ An alternative blog hosting application.

Social Media

[Project]: Override Episode 11: The Qortal Network

Check out this latest interview which is one of Crowetic’s most comprehensive breakdowns of Qortal! It’s phenomenal!  https://www.bitchute.com/video/VRdf3BogitsZ/

The Corbett Report Interview With Crowetic

In this video, James introduces Crowetic to his audience and highlights Qortal’s distinctive features such as being constructed from the ground up and the internet’s ultimate freedom purpose, in his hunt for a solution to basic internet censorship and centralized control. Crowetic provides insight to Qortal’s user interface (UI), the development of new features including the much-desired Q-Apps, and the growth of the community! https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-communication/

Meta-Builders Media

Check out this very informative article about Qortal written by Meta-Builders Media. The article provides a nice introduction to its readers about overview information related to project ideals and other details in a quick read. Enjoy! https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetabuilders.substack.com%2Fp%2Fdecentralized-blockchain-qortal

Qortal Think Tanks

Get into the brainstorming talks among crowetic, other co-founders, developers, and the community! These are casual chats open to the public! You can find recordings of these weekly meetings on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

Reminders

Qortal Community Initiatives

We seek to build solutions! Check out our Community Initiatives here: https://qortal.link/community-initiatives/index.html

Qortal AT Lottery

Be on the lookout for the next decentralized automated lottery within the Qortal UI! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually (it’s all managed by what is called an ‘Automated Transaction’ and often referred to as ‘AT’). In order to buy a lottery ticket, you simply send a set amount of QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal and makes for a great demo! The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI.

Ticket price of previous lotteries: 10 QORT (ticket price is programmable upon AT launch)

Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Crowetic Hardware Development “CHD”

Whether a custom laptop, or a QORTector utilizing the Raspberry Pi, CHD is offering these products worldwide (shipping out of NV USA). Custom laptops include upgraded storage to SSD, a deactivated Intel management engine, disabled tracking systems, and visual and performance tweaks for full functionality, including the battery and power adapter. Custom laptop builds are also offered if desired! QORTectors include custom kernels (software) to provide optimized cryptographic and security functions for a reasonably priced 5W dedicated minting machine! They will also offer the QORTable device once it is made available. New customized laptops are being listed all the time, so check back often for updated listings! As of March 1st, all CHD laptops will come with multiple desktop environments. These will include a ‘windows-like’ desktop environment and a ‘mac-like’ desktop environment so users can choose which they use based on their experience with centralized operating systems. Both environments are completely customized for ease of use and appeal.

CHD has updated the website making it cleaner and simpler to use. The laptops page has been updated so that it will automatically show newly listed machines all in one place. Check it out:  https://test.crowetic.com/index.php/random-rebuilds/ https://crowetic.com

Wiki Updates

Leveling System infographic has been updated on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=leveling_system

All links to Think Tanks can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

All links to Interviews/Podcasts can be found on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=interviews_podcasts

Final Words

The community is energized brainstorming the marketing arena, creating video series, printing flyers and stickers that will create awareness everywhere! 

Motivational Quote

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”

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Greetings Qortians! We have a lot of development in the works and things are moving along steadily. The first phase of the Names Market has been launched, we now have weekly ‘Think Tank’ meetings in Discord, a new Discord server dedicated to marketing efforts is being made, the first iteration of Q-Apps is nearing launch, and so many other awesome things are in the works. Qortal is infrastructure. Implementing a new infrastructure requires effort. Qortal’s efforts depend on all of us working together to fill all voids. Remember that Qortal is a community developed and run project. Every member of the community has their role in assisting Qortal with building the future digital infrastructure of the world!

 

Project Updates

Qortal ‘Names Market’

Names on Qortal are not just the equivalent of ‘domain names’, but also offer the ability to act as an on-chain username for any Q-App (social media, communications, profiles for all Q-Apps that ‘follow’ you from one to another), a QORT wallet ‘nickname’, and even an “NFT” (proof of ownership AND the data tied to the proof – where a user can soon manage a git repo and any other data associated with the name). A Qortal name will have the ability to have a website, git repo, public and private data, application, and followers tied to it, all of which can be sold AT ONCE on the Names Market to another owner that can pick up where the previous owner left off with NO changes to ‘hosting’, ‘DNS’ or anything associated with the current ‘internet’. This is a revolutionary concept that will allow building and selling entire ‘brands’ or ‘companies’ at once, along with their entire digital presence secured on a distributed decentralized network. The Names Market is a plugin that allows owners to list names for sale, at whatever price in QORT they see fit. Remember, each name is unique and is permanently owned until sold – which can now be done via the Names Market!

European Marketing Team

Our European community has a goal to print between 10,000 and 100,000 flyers and/or stickers to hand out over the summer. If you are interested in helping get the word out in Europe, contact Positeer#5504 in our Discord.

If you would like to contribute to this cause, you can send to the “Promotion” account:

QORT: Qf166hvr4jYF49mZ4LotA6EGJXzef35ZtF 

LTC: LKH5BuCLGUAzeuUCeZ6bEiXABFUbbN2z6V 

ARRR: zs14m4p77qy3vr9d2v3eh65adg3rvfxuxssh34d6jyn4azrkqc99k4eyzh86py08rjc5c3kzhstgpv

Spatial.io

We have started to discuss a potential relationship with Spatial as we explore their immersive 3D ‘metaverse’ concept. Visit their website to experience a Star Wars flight simulator, an 88 MPH Back to the Future ride, or a concept of your own design! You’ll also find a Qortal infographic that the team added to bring awareness to our project! https://www.spatial.io/

Crowetic Consulting

Since Qortal is being built to offer secure and distributed infrastructure, Crowetic Consulting is a new company and service provider preparing to launch. The objective is to assist the public and private sector with building solutions on Qortal’s infrastructure. Whether it be a website, app, its own chain, or any other means of building real value, virtually anything is possible. Stay tuned!

Payment System Plugin

There are several important aspects for Qortal to become a viable alternative for the future digital world. One aspect is the ability to safely conduct transactions with a payment system. Q-Apps will soon unleash a plethora of capabilities including a payment system concept. Envision e-commerce and subscription-based services on the Qortal Network thriving with a trustless payment system! Envision the local storefront having the ability to host their own website and accept QORT or any of the other coins we build support for! There’s even a possibility that we can develop a partnership with a third party fiat gateway service, as Qortal will never build support for fiat directly, but there may be a way to ensure greater adoption during the ‘transition’ from fiat money with some form of fiat gateway onboarding. 

QORTable – The Portable Qortal Device

‘QORTable’ will also soon be available. QORTable is a totally portable installation of Qortal. Utilizing custom scripts, QORTable allows a user to have a completely self-contained installation of Qortal that functions on any existing OS. The Qortal Core and UI will run without having to install anything on a computer. The core and UI run with the computer’s hardware, but the Qortal installation, database (including other types of data), and UI stay on the external drive which means QORTable will be plug-n-play ready for running the Qortal Core and UI from one computer to another at any time! In other words, you can stop where you are on one computer and pick up where you left off on another computer with QORTable! No exact release date is planned, but it will be available soon at: https://crowetic.com

Qortal Voting System

Qortal will soon launch the long-awaited Voting System. This on-chain feature will give every Minter a weighted vote based on their blocks minted count when taking part in network-wide decision making. This weighted vote concept is based on TIME and CONTRIBUTION, just as the Leveling System is. This technology can also be used for the Groups built on Qortal, where these sub-communities can launch their own votes or polls. More info will be provided soon. 

 

Wiki Updates

The wiki has a couple of updates worth noting.

How To Build Qortal UI From Source guide has been updated in a more detailed format: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=qortal_ui_from_source

QORTEX open source block explorer has been added: 

Thanks to Positeer, How To Change A Name Guide has been created: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=how_to_change_a_name

QORTEX open source block explorer has been added: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=qortex

Each Qortal Think Tank episode will be added here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

 

Social Media

Think Tank #1 (February 28th 2023)

We are now hosting Qortal Think Tank every Tuesday at 10am PST in the Qortal Community Discord! Join us as we use this time to learn more about the overall ideals of the project, the inner workings of the platform, the ever-evolving roadmap, and share ideas to further the mission. Anyone is able to ask questions, provide feedback, present ideas for comments by the developers, and more! Recordings are currently posted on YouTube for those who aren’t able to join, and links can also be found on the wiki: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=information_videos

Privacy Crypto Speculation Charts

Check out this article by H8St8, where the crypto privacy arena and the war for your money are covered and along with the technical characteristics of leading privacy coins, all while Qortal is given a prominent role in it: https://bastyon.com/h8st8?s=89e7cf4e13f8e062c7d4d19415ae9e07b79bb4d89b26b079a77c1b0f446d1558&mpost=true

Qortal AT Lottery

Be on the lookout for the next decentralized automated lottery within the Qortal UI! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually (it’s all managed by what is called an ‘Automated Transaction’ and often referred to as ‘AT’). In order to buy a lottery ticket, you simply send a set amount of QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal and makes for a great demo! The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI.

Ticket price of previous lotteries: 10 QORT (ticket price is programmable upon AT launch)

Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Crowetic Hardware Development “CHD”

Whether a custom laptop, or a QORTector utilizing the RaspberryPi, CHD is offering these products worldwide (shipping out of Reno NV USA). Custom laptops include upgraded storage to SSD, a deactivated Intel management engine, disabled tracking systems, and visual and performance tweaks for full functionality, including the battery and power adapter. Custom laptop builds are also offered if desired! QORTectors include custom kernels (software) to provide optimized cryptographic and security functions for a reasonably priced 5W dedicated minting machine! They will also offer the QORTable device once it is made available. New customized laptops are being listed all the time, so check back often for updated listings! As of March 1st, all CHD laptops will come with multiple desktop environments. These will include a ‘windows-like’ desktop environment and a ‘mac-like’ desktop environment so users can choose which they use based on their experience on centralized Operating Systems. Both environments are completely customized for ease of use and appeal. https://crowetic.com

Additional Notes

We had our second historic chain stall in February. This was due to a genesis bug which wasn’t fully realized until the names functionality was modified (due to developing the Names Market) and launched on the main net. The solution was to install a new core version and bootstrap if on the ‘stuck’ block. The network is back on track now, so it’s back to the usual, onwards and upwards! For the record, the DevTeam always tests releases in a dev net environment prior to releasing, but sometimes unforeseen events occur only after launching on the main net. The DevTeam is working on a permanent test net which anyone interested could help take part with. More info on that will be coming soon. Please note: users of CHD’s laptops who followed Crowe’s Ubuntu Desktop installation guide, as well as those with newer QORTector versions sold by CHD, would have automatically recovered from this issue thanks to the ‘auto-fix-qortal.sh’ script that is setup to run automatically on these devices. Reach out if you’re interested in automating your Linux machines with this script! 

A Message From CalDescent

“Qortal is an incredibly complicated system, with over 40 different transaction types. Compare that to most crypto projects, which really only have one type (payment) — or at least just a few variations of the payment type. Qortal’s transactions affect the chain state in significant ways, such as adding and updating names, groups, websites, balances, reward eligibility, etc., and it all has to be done in a way that doesn’t result in any discrepancies. Qortal’s foundational code is close to perfect. You can see that by the number of unit tests that exist in the core, testing various elaborate scenarios to proactively ensure there are no bugs. However, it’s not 100% perfect. There have been very minor consensus bugs in the code since the original published version, with a couple more introduced along the way. Even a single line or character out of place in the consensus or transaction processing code is enough to split the network into endless forks or stall the entire chain. In a project like this, there is zero room for error when it comes to the foundational code. And we need a lot more core development and testing resources before it will get to a stage where every one of these lurking bugs is completely fixed.”

A Message From Crowetic

“#Qortal $QORT – Now in final stages of #Q-Apps Development. This will allow ANY application to be built on top of Qortal’s infrastructure. You think NFTs are useful, you’ve not seen ANYTHING yet. ;)”

Motivational Quote

 “Aim for the stars and maybe you’ll reach the sky.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

Join Us!

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Telegram (general chat): https://t.me/qortal_official

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/qortal_official

Website: http://qortal.org/

Wiki: http://wiki.qortal.org/

 

Greetings Qortians! As we kick off the new year, development continues to take large strides in the right direction. Qortal is bigger than “crypto” – and the roadmap is ever-evolving as we build from scratch! By utilizing blockchain technology, Qortal aims to provide the world with true peer-to-peer solutions (P2P) in areas of local wallets, cross-chain trading (atomic swaps), e-commerce, communications, data hosting, application hosting, and more! Envision a base platform that offers alternatives to rebuilding the Internet, crypto space, and internet service itself!

 

QORTEX

The first iteration of a fully open source block explorer has arrived! QORTEX offers a way for users to review certain data on Qortal from a web browser (without having to access through a Qortal node). Eventually, QORTEX will become a Q-App and be available within the Qortal UI as well! We thank our lead UI developer AlphaX Projects for starting the development of this explorer and look forward to seeing more features be released soon! 

https://explorer.qortal.org/

Q-Apps

Q-Apps will be the first time for EXTERNAL developers to directly jump in without any ‘approval’ of any kind, and start developing on Qortal (excluding projects seeking asset issuance). We’ll build an App Store that will list all of the applications as Apple and Android app stores do, including ratings and reviews! For those who understand how the GitHub works, you can read an explanation about all the various ways websites and apps can interact in the first iteration’s framework here (note that the core side is done, but the UI side will need at least another month or so before this is live): https://github.com/Qortal/qortal/blob/q-apps/Q-Apps.md

 

Price Charts

Thanks to AlphaX Projects, beginning with UI version 3.0.0, the UI now has the ability to navigate between price charts for each trading pair! You can change the date range or simply press a button to export and view full screen. Enjoy!

 

Trade Bot Update

When a buyer selects a sell order, the buyer’s foreign coin (BTC, LTC, DOGE, RVN, DGB, ARRR) is removed from the local wallet and placed into an on-chain escrow (using a P2SH address), and the trade is then coordinated via the the buyer and seller’s trade bots. If either node goes offline for whatever reason, the buyer’s coin is returned of course, but the transaction fee on the foreign blockchain is NOT refunded. This can be frustrating, discouraging, and costly for users on the Trade Portal. Thanks to CalDescent, the next release includes a feature that will prevent foreign coins from leaving the local wallet when there is a high probability that the trade will fail; a check for unconfirmed transactions related to the seller’s QORT offer will identify if someone else is trying to buy the order as well as if the seller is canceling the trade.

https://github.com/Qortal/qortal/commit/876658256f735853040e930b057ee1db025d54a2

 

Q-Chat

Q-Chat has more features in the works! Recent updates include the ability to: 1) post pictures, 2) react to messages with emoticons, 3) reply to messages in group chats, and 4) tip users. 

Soon we’ll have file attachments (more than image files), and a GIF repository where you’ll be able to create a collection of GIFs and/or subscribe to them! Check out the quick video below and learn how to tip a user from within any chat inside Qortal’s UI, as well as by clicking on the person’s name from any group members’ list they are in:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/357242391750508545/1061701152216985600/Qortal_Tip_User.gif

 

AT Lottery System

Be on the lookout for the next decentralized automated lottery within the Qortal UI! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually (it’s all managed by what is called an Automated Transaction often referred to as “AT”). In order to buy a ‘ticket’, you must send QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal and makes for a great demo! The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI.

Ticket price: 10 QORT

Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Community Services

Crowetic Hardware Development “CHD”

Qortians the winter sale is still going on! Get the easiest, fastest, and most efficient device to run your Qortal node! Whether a custom laptop, or a QORTector utilizing the RaspberryPi, CHD is offering these products worldwide (shipping out of Reno NV USA). Custom laptops include upgraded storage to SSD, a deactivated Intel management engine, and visual and performance tweaks for full functionality, including the battery and power adapter. Custom laptop builds are also offered if desired! QORTectors include custom kernels (software) to provide optimized cryptographic and security functions for a reasonably priced 5W dedicated minting machine! https://crowetic.com

 

Developers Wanted

We’re currently looking for experienced pool developers to assist in a new project. If you know how to work with https://github.com/tpruvot/yiimp or NOMP, NGINX, APIs, etc, and have experience building pools for chains, also looking for a python/os developer that can customize Qubes-OS for Qortal. Please let us know and contact: Captain Loo✟z#2749 in our discord server: https://discord.gg/UqhQCYjVw2

 

Social Media

CryptoTips

Listen to this great chat with the CryptoTips tribe with Crowetic. He shares his own journey in cyberspace before continuing to inform the audience about the various possibilities that Qortal provides to modify how we utilize the Internet. He places emphasis on the notion that true decentralization only happens when the individual has complete control over their machine and equally important, are true peer-to-peer (P2P) solutions without any central points of attack (centralization). This talk is incredibly educational and easy for everyone to understand as these points are explained. The era of Qortal is here!

https://odysee.com/@CTClub-Community:a/Speaker—Jason-Crowe:1?&sunset=lbrytv

GreyWolf and Crowetic

Superb AMA with Polarity Exchange’s GreyWolf! In an easy-to-read and technical manner, Crowetic covers the amazing QDN, a full dissection of the AT (automated transactions), the advent of Q-Apps, the Qortal Git, as well as some of the challenges over the years of development and what’s in store for the future! This is a quick and easy read: Here:https://qortal.org/qortal-ama-with-crowetic-and-greywolf/

Final Words

The recent events in the crypto space have created awareness to the risks associated with centralized services that control user’s keys… remember folks: NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR CRYPTO! With Qortal, each user is in complete control over their account, keys, and data. This is just the beginning! We appreciate all of you and as we often say, TOGETHER WE ARE THE CHAIN!

“Today’s tears water tomorrow’s gardens.”

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Qortal Wiki: http://wiki.qortal.org/

 

Qortal AMA

What is an AMA? An AMA is essentially a ‘session’ wherein a person associated with a project (in this case, crowetic) is asked questions by someone else. It stands for ‘Ask Me Anything’, and it is a useful tool to assist in overall understanding of a project, and get down to the details of said project.

In this AMA the questions were asked by another developer in the blockchain space, GreyWolf. He asked some great questions and we figured that the Qortal community would like to see them and their answers. Enjoy!

Green – GreyWolf questions

Blue – Crowetic answers.

This AMA took place between ‘crowetic’ of Qortal and developer ‘GreyWolf’ in a private telegram community.

"Qortal is basically what crypto was supposed to be all along. They are rebuilding the internet without the internet."

I admit I am a intellectual troll at times and this message begins where I just implore into simple questions to back up such a statement, crypto is defined by the needed application by a business or entity or group.

What is meant by that statement, is… We are doing everything in a 100% decentralized and distributed fashion, along with adding the ability for ‘any’ person to become part of the project, and help power the network. (As these were the original concepts of the Bitcoin whitepaper, and the concepts to bring the ‘power back to the hands of the people’. etc.

 

Why do people claim the chain is private and not opt in?

I have never claimed the chain was private, so I’m not sure what you mean by that. the CHAIN and TRANSACTIONS are public, but since everything is completely decentralized, there is no method for an ‘identity’ to be tied to an account, unless the person specifically says ‘this is my account’.

 

 

Yes, you will see I am just questioning the community as politely as possible. I have not directed anything but love towards your commitment to helping ARRR.

Can you explain what level of funding and or dev hours have gone into your SDK?

Oh wow… lol… well… I have personally been working on the concepts and coming up with the correct people to work on the project, correlating messages between certain high IQ devs who shall remain nameless, who can’t seem to get along with anyone other than me for longer than a week (lol) and dedicating a TON of time to perfecting the concepts, etc… for 10+ years now.

But as far as the actual development goes, it really depends and is difficult to answer that question directly, as there are multiple components to Qortal, such as the AT system and its custom language that took its developer quite a bit of time to build, then our developer some time to translate it into something that was compatible with Qortal, etc etc…

But the actual development of the base level platform that exists today, started around 2016 during the ‘takeover’ of the QORA project. That was when the code actually started being written for what ultimately became the Qortal that exists now.

In order to accurately count the hours, that would be quite difficult, but it has been A TON of time and effort since ~2013 that continues to this day…

Myself personally, I have invested what would equate to nearly 2 million USD (which is part of what makes the current ~1.5 million dollar market cap so offensive to me) in one way or another in order to get the platform live and keep it moving.

 

Has there been any business application or utility so far applied to your network outside of staking and l1 base tradition functionalities?

We do NOT ‘stake’. In fact that is part of what we are trying to get rid of in the ‘crypto space’. We use a method that gives NO ‘weight’ to ‘money’ in any way, disallowing the ability for anyone to ‘buy’ any sort of ‘influence’ over the network. We believe this is the only way to prevent the platform being ‘owned’ in one way or another, when it inevitably gets to the point that it becomes a more widely known ‘threat’ to the existing system.

It must be impossible for those with the most ‘money’ now, to be able to gain a foothold in Qortal, simply by having more money than others.

that being said… yes, there are TONS of available use cases, including the ability to host a website on our completely decentralized and distributed data network, QDN. Users can right now, publish a website on QDN that is there INDEFINITELY, for a one-time name registration fee.

The data published doesn’t cost ANYTHING to publish, not even a transaction fee (as we use the same MemPoW that is in our consensus, to allow transactions to take place completely feeless in regard to publishing data on QDN, and messaging in Q-Chat) – Q-Chat will soon be getting turned into a protocol in order to remove reliance upon unconfirmed transactions at all, but that’s another story.

Q-Apps will be made available VERY soon, which will leverage the ‘websites’ and give them a TON more functionality, allowing applications to be built in the same fashion, that get more redundant, stronger, faster, as more users access them from their nodes.

QDN is a masterpiece of a data network with a blockchain security layer. It allows you to publish a website with no DNS, no server, no domain, no publishing fee, no continual fee, that cannot be taken down, cannot be hacked, and stays there indefinitely until you as the owner decide to take it down.

You can see one of my QDN hosted sites, even without running a node, by way of a ‘gateway node’ that I run, which I have made accessible here – https://qortal.link/crowetic

(with the gateway node, you can input any registered name after the / there, and it will load that site from QDN and display to ‘the internet’. Making use of the node running on that domain. But if a user accesses the site from the Qortal UI they do NOT need to utilize any domain, or access any server at all. In the future when we have lite nodes we will be able to build a ‘browser’ as well for QDN, so that accessing sites through the UI is not the only way to access them with full decentralization.)

When Q-Apps go live, full ‘merchant sites’, video hosting platforms, social media, blogs, forums, and literally anything you can think of, will be possible to build on top of QDN.

(payment processing, tipping, user account ‘authentication’, cross-site linking, communications from users to site owners, all directly possible from the sites themselves.)

 

As mentioned by another user there was concern around the model of sponsoring nodes, with the program stopped, have all the leases been revoked to nodes in the previous governance program model?

If you’re referring to the ‘self-sponsorship’ issue… the self-sponsorship algorithm has done its job, and retroactively added a ‘blocksMintedPenalty’ to every account deemed by the algo (utilizing a TON of data points in very specific fasion to both catch the self-sponsors and not catch non-self-sponsors, even those sponsored by obvious self-sponsoring sponsors) to be controlling multiple accounts. The same method was utilized on EVERY account, and every account was treated exactly the same by the algo.

The algo found and removed minting and sponsorship rights from 5,570 minting accounts from ~60 sponsors, and we are now past that scenario. We knew that eventually we would need to address the obvious one game that could be played on Qortal’s minting system, but we had expected that we would be able to do so a bit later down the line, so that we could have gotten more of our new features first, but alas, it worked out this way… no matter, that is now behind us, and we’re moving forward, and massive Q-Chat and QDN improvements are now on the horizon, along with the addition of multiple new signers into the developer group, etc etc. 2023 is going to be a REALLY exciting year for the project.

 

Understood, so how does your networks consensus work then? Can it not be 51% attacked? Do you control the push and commits for the node updates?

51% attacks are nearly impossible, as the person looking to attack would need to have over 51% of the level 5+ accounts, and also, at the beginning of the network, the ‘founder’ accounts of the network mint with an ‘effective level’ of 10, making them more likely to be the actual SIGNER. This was done specifically for the network’s security while it was still relatively ‘small’.

being the block signer only matters for chain security, every minter is rewarded every block whether they’re the signer or not.

Only minters of level 5 or higher are actually able to sign new blocks, and obtaining the majority of accounts of level 5 or higher, AND the majority of the founders, would be the only way to ‘attack’ the network.

As far as the update question, the Qortal Core has ‘auto-updates’ (which can be disabled by users if they choose) that work by way of a ‘group_approval’ (basically multi-signature transaction usable only by ‘admins’ of a specific group, in this case the ‘dev-group’.) transaction. The developer who is submitting the update code, submits a special type of transaction that sits on the chain until it is signed by the required amount of dev-group admins. This transaction contains the code for the update’s automation. When the update has been signed by the required number of dev-group admins, that final signature block becomes the ‘update block’. Every node that passes the update block and has auto-updates enabled, will automatically update the qortal.jar once their node reaches the block. There is also code included that delays the updates so that the entire network doesn’t go down at once to update at the same time, the staggered update ripples throughout the network until all auto-update-enabled nodes have been updated. This allows for seamless network improvements and much more ease-of-use in regard to running a node and making sure it stays updated with the newest features and functionality.

 

What format are these websites (on QDN)? html/css?

Yes, websites are written in HTML/CSS/JS (client-side languages) and SECURED by the blockchain. The data itself is encrypted and chunked, and stored on any node that accesses it. (views or follows it)

Viewing nodes become a peer for THAT VERSION of the data only, if an update happens, they would have to re-view it in order to get the new copy of the data.

Followers obtain updated copies of the data automatically, when a new version of a site is published, all of the name’s followers automatically obtain the new version of the data.

Data is only decrypted and built when VIEWED, so even the followers, unless they have specifically clicked the site to VIEW it, only have ‘encrypted chunked nonsense’ on their node as far as any ‘prying eyes’ are concerned, if the data isn’t accessed THROUGH QORTAL, then it is a bunch of encrypted chunked nonsense data.

 

What is the estimated monthly cost hosting a node now, and versus a ballpark estimate of when the network supports 100,000 websites approx? (To the end user.)

Given the fact that a node can literally be run on basically ANY computer, even a raspberry pi 4 can run Qortal with no issues (as @Theophilus33 can attest to, and many many others 🙂 ) – it costs you only ‘bandwidth’ to run a node, and most people in US and EU have ‘unlimited data’.

In the future our plan is to remove the reliance upon ‘the internet’ and ISPs as well, but that will require a much larger network of nodes, and our Mesh Network addition, and a bit of time to fully accomplish, along with some concepts for cross-ocean connectivity, etc… we have a few ideas there, but we’re not there yet overall. So we will utilize ‘the internet’ a while longer I suspect.

But Qortal was built in such a way that it does not REQUIRE ‘the internet’. It simply requires A method to communicate…

 

Alright so you index the site over the number needed of blocks, are the blocks dynamic? Or fixed, and to what TPS loads?

The data on a QDN namespace is published in the form of a zip, that zip is then encrypted, chunked, and hashed.

Each hash is then stored in a single file, which is in turn also hashed.

Finally, the single hash, is stored on the blockchain.

With that single hash, we can then tell if any file subordinate to that hash was modified, as that hash would then also be modified, and we can assume data was changed if that happens. At which point the modified data is made note of and acquired to view the newly updated site.

 

On the privacy side, could an attacker parse a website, and then export it? Or is this not possible without signing by way of public key?

Not sure what you mean exactly by this, but since all of the data is encrypted and chunked, in order to decrypt and build it, you must first have a key.

For public data that key is obviously available publicly, for private data it would be only available to those who were specifically given access to the key (this could be done by way of groups, which we will be adding very soon, or by way of a single-account ‘share’ done by the name’s owner.)

 

My only concern with this statement is for example, if you run waves tech which can scale to solana TPS on a super machine, or run on a raspberry pi, is determinate on the number of blocks being processed by the network, example:

100tx per second, rapsberry pi can handle, 10,000tx per second, def not, you need more resources or the node will stall.

Our chain functions differently on the base level, and even now, just to process the multiple listed trades (which live on-chain in the form of an AT) and all of their transactions to keep them ‘alive’, there is quite a bit of processing going on at any given time, all of which is handled just fine by a raspberry pi.

I suspect EVENTUALLY we will get to a point wherein pis will not be able to run EVERY aspect of QDN and everything hosted there, but that won’t be for quite a while, until we build a ‘server-side’ hosting method… at which point we will also be ‘modular’ so that nodes that CAN support the added processing necessary, can simply install an additional module that will allow them to do so.

But that’s not on our development radar yet, and as such hasn’t been fully ‘flushed out’ at this time. We do know, though, that Qortal, as it grows, will definitely need to become ‘modular’ in multiple ways, and are planning with that in mind.

Client-side hosting is what we’re focusing on now, and I don’t see any reason why (at least from existing experience and seeing how things have gone so far) that a pi should not be able to continue running everything on QDN for quite a while longer.

 

Ok so there is public data end user can view, and backend secured by key?

Correct, we have not yet initiated the ‘private data’ functionality, but that will be done very soon, and it will be data that is secured unless you have specifically been given access to it in one way or another, and since Qortal also has on-chain ‘groups’, doing shares and multiple other things becomes able to be accomplished quite easily.

We do not yet have group-controlled or private data live, but both of those are very close.

 

Ok good answer thank you for being transparent, scale is a serious topic.

Yes, it really is, and we are very aware of that fact, but as it sits right now, the pis are easily able to support everything we have, and should be able to do so for quite a while longer. 🙂 and of course, I am ALWAYS 100% transparent, just like our codebase. 😉

What I am personally VERY excited about, is ‘Qortal Git’, which will allow EVERY NAME on QDN to have along with a ‘namespace’ for a ‘website/app’, also a ‘git repo’, this will be VERY exciting, and allow multiple other open source projects to utilize a truly decentralized distributed git repo location, instead of the Microtrash-owned ‘GitHub’.

 

 

Thats a serious application which could help out a lot.

Yes, I am VERY excited about this, and there are only a few other little things we need in order to make it a reality. 🙂

 

 

Excellent, this exercise was in the flow of incorrect information, and people to challenge themselves to determine the truth 🔑

some lingering questions

– is your language for SC non turing complete, or turing complete
– is there a shortage, or abundance of libraries available to work wtih
– would you be interested in stateless gateway to TN or DVPN?
– Both would function by using the other network as an oracle
– transfer of funds is between user public keys

So, our ‘SmartContracts’ (I don’t like using that term as I feel like it has been bastardized like many other things in the space, by the likes of Ethereum and Binance ‘smart’ chain… but yea…) are written utilizing a turing complete hardware-level programming language called ‘AT’ or ‘Automated Transactions’.

This language allows for a ‘virtual CPU’ that lives on-chain, to automatically execute transactions on the chain.

At the moment, the primary use case for AT that we’re using now, is the ‘ACCT’ AT, or ‘Atomic Cross-Chain Trade’ AT. This is what powers the ‘Trade Portal’ of Qortal and allows us to cross-chain trade with the 6 ‘foreign’ coins that we now support.

the AT language is able to be read up more on here, on the main developer’s main info website – http://ciyam.org/at.

 

 

Interesting, is it possible for you to implement a non turing complete language? As they are the most secure, and what I feel comfortable writing software for, I can cite for you why I have such a position

I do believe I sent this once before – https://hackernoon.com/should-smart-contracts-be-non-turing-complete-fe304203a49e

Well, I suppose it would be possible, but since our ATs are a lot ‘simpler’ in functionality and what they can accomplish, and are not utilized to create ‘full applications’ but instead for simple automation of payments, automated escrow, automated ‘lottery’, and cross-chain trades, I don’t know if it would be something we need to focus on at the moment.

We only utilize the ‘battle-tested’ ATs that have existed for many years, modified to work with Qortal’s unique blockchain, and ATs are limited in terms of what they can accomplish overall, and are only meant to be utilized for automating certain transactions.

Thus far there hasn’t been anything like that that has taken place, but I welcome anyone to try to break anything, always, so that we may make any necessary modifications. 🙂

 

 

Can a user make their own AT, deploy and run it locally? Is there an authority of AT modules, and would that be your team?

ATs run on-chain. Yes, users CAN make their own, but it’s not a simple language to learn, and they are limited overall with the things they can do… think of them more as a ‘virtual CPU’ instead of a full VM. there is no ‘authority’ over them per se… other than the ‘authority’ given to them when created… If I understand the question.

 

 

What language is this based on or closest to in nature?

Assembly. AT language is a hardware-level language that is meant to run on-chain and be ‘simple’ as a ‘virtual CPU’ instead of a full ‘Virtual Machine’.

 

 

You did a great job handling some very simple, and some difficult questions.

Thanks! I do my best. 🙂

 

 

IMO the ATs should be a point of focus given the volume of DEFI comes from protocols.

Yes, we have yet to put a lot of focus there, as we first plan to have an ‘AT builder’ available for people, so that they don’t have to learn the AT language fully in order to launch an Automated Transaction. I suspect we will utilize them when we have ‘eBay-like’ markets as well, for automated escrow, etc… they could also be utilized for ‘automatic monthly payments’ and things like that, in tandem with a Q-App.

 

 

Just be aware many devs will wish to assemble their own ATs.

Yes, I’m certain that will be a thing as well, and that is totally possible, the language just takes a little learning to grasp. AT is quite unique. The developer of the AT language is one of the highest IQ people I’ve ever dealt with, and has some truly amazing software under his repositories. It took me many years of daily communication to get enough translated to our devs to allow his AT system to be built into Qortal.

 

 

You did very well for ARRR, and thats super special to me.

Glad you liked what we’ve done, our lead dev also contributed some improvements to the ARRR repo directly that forge has taken and made use of. 🙂

 

 

Thank you, this conversation was very helpful.

My pleasure, I am always around to answer questions from users or potential users of Qortal. I do not expect that every person has taken the time to read our very extensive and ever-growing wiki line-by-line, and am always here to assist in obtaining a better understanding of our completely custom base level infrastructure platform. Thank you!

 

Qortal Newsletter Update January 2023 Edition

Happy New Years Qortians! 2022 was a year full of complex developmental achievements that prepared us for the new year. Network performance, combating self-sponsorship, and base layers for an ever-evolving platform are just a few areas in which Qortal has advanced. We’ve experienced all sorts of challenges that were not easy to resolve, but with passionate care, we continue to make large strides in the right direction! 

Self Sponsorship Algorithm 

The self-sponsorship algorithm was implemented in December. This area of development took several months to conceive and code, with tedious care. The algorithm uses data points to identify and then penalize accounts deemed to be ‘self-sponsored’ accounts (literally individuals sponsoring multiple accounts for their own personal gain). These accounts are given a ‘-5 Million blocksMinted Penalty’ which discredits each account’s blocks minted count by 5 million. Thereafter making the account revert back to below level 0, unable to mint, and unable to sponsor (if the account was level 5+). Most if not all subsequent accounts under the self sponsor are also given the same penalty, while also using data points to avoid penalizing what appear to be ‘normal users’ who were sponsored by the account being penalized. As you see, this is a rather complex design based on data points that was not easy to produce. Of course no system is perfect, and Qortal’s Minting and Sponsorship Systems will never be entirely fool-proof, but hopefully this historic implementation will help deter more of those attempting to self sponsor and ensure a more fair system for all Minters. Please note: the self-sponsorship algo is not continual, meaning it is a one-time sweep each time it is run. There will be a second sweep at a later time, after more data can be reviewed and collected, as well as allocating development time to this unfortunate issue. The Qortal Wiki will soon have a page with a more in-depth explanation of the Blocks Minted Penalty! 

Q-Chat Update

We also encountered a unique Q-Chat issue due to a spammer in the General Chat (creating a new account for each new message so users cannot simply block a single spam account). This event bogged down the performance of nodes connecting to the network (causing much more MemPoW verification processing with each message), and led to the recent update where level zero accounts must now hold a minimum of 4.2 QORT in their wallets in order to grant faster chat capacities. Further work and investigation will be done in regard to this pragmatic issue.

 

Qortal UI Block Explorer

The UI now has its own built-in block explorer! Simply type in a QORT address or registered name in the search bar at top of the UI, and a pop-up will appear with the account’s information (including trades on all markets). Eventually we’ll have a mobile solution (lite nodes) so users can access their accounts and Qortal Network info without having to do so on their full nodes. Stay tuned!

Auto-Buy

Qortal’s Trade Portal now offers ‘Auto-Buy’. This feature lets users select the amount of coin they are willing to trade at a value set by the user. This ‘buy order’ is then set to automatically buy every order within the set parameters (and is only viewable to the user setting the buy order). The Auto-Buy is designed to select the lowest priced orders in the market, and buy as many of them up to the set rate the user has selected. For example, a user could set the Auto-Buy for 5000 QORT at 0.01 and the trade bot will buy as many of the sell orders under 0.01 up to a total of 5000 QORT. If an order is refunded, it will not attempt to buy from that sell order again. Please note: the UI must be left open if an Auto-Buy order is in place, and the user must stay signed into the account with the Auto-Buy. You can use the other plugins within the UI such as Websites or Q-Chat, but the UI must be left open.

Price Charts Coming Soon!

The long awaited price charts within the UI are nearly ready! Users will be able to view the history of each market over various time frames. Stay tuned!

More Development News

Development is picking up speed in other areas: the first iteration of Q-Apps nears, data transmission enhancements with QDN, while Q-Chat is evolving with a protocol instead of unconfirmed transactions (making it much faster and more efficient, and with less or no ‘missed’ messages), Q-Chat will also have new features such as picture and file messaging, edits, replies, formatting, and ability to store messages as long as the user would like (locally)! Another important area of development is the Voting System – where our votes will be weighted based on blocks minted and make decisions on certain aspects of the project’s direction. Coming soon!

Q-Apps will provide the Qortal Network with a variety of different functionality, including but not limited to: payment processing, cross-name linking, individual file downloads, code repository solution (GitHub replacement), video hosting and streaming (YouTube replacement), and evolving Qortal into a platform where apps can be built freely (without the Qortal developers being required). We will also have both ‘default’ and ‘external’ UI ‘plugins’ (applications that can be installed to run directly in the UI like the current plugins on the left sidebar) and will have eventually a location to acquire these plugins hosted on QDN. Read more about Q-Apps here:  https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=q-apps

AT Lottery System

Enter our fully decentralized automated lottery! Your chances of winning are completely random! Nobody handles any aspect of this manually. For the moment, this is an AT-Powered Lottery System, so in order to buy a ‘ticket’, you must send your QORT to a specific address (the AT’s address), and you can only buy one ticket per Qortal Account. The system will then select a winning ‘ticket’ at a predetermined block arrival. (This is one of many alternate use cases for the AT system of Qortal.) The AT address will be different for each lottery issued. In the future, the ability to create these lottery ATs and many other types of ATs will be built into the Qortal UI, 

Ticket price: 10 QORT

The Qortal ‘AT’ system (or Automated Transactions) allows for multiple types of transaction automation to take place. Currently we utilize it primarily for the peer-to-peer Cross-Chain Trades (or the ACCT AT) within the Trade Portal. There is a lot of other functionality that can take place utilizing ATs, such as ‘automated escrow’, ‘automated decentralized lotteries’, ‘automatic payments’ on a schedule, ‘funds holding and distribution’, and much more. As time goes on, many more ATs will be built for Qortal, and able to be utilized. But it takes time to develop and test, and the UI components must be built as well, in order to allow other users to make use of the created ATs, deploy them, etc. The first Lottery AT test on Qortal is LIVE! Read more about the Lottery System here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=lottery_system

Crisis Event

Be sure to catch Qortal’s co-founder, Crowetic, when he meets with a number of freedom fighters during February 6–10 with the goal of releasing revolutionary knowledge and their passions so that we may create a sane, liberated, and empowered community.

Anyone who feels led to speak is welcome to do so; the event is free and open to everybody. Find more details here: https://piratechain.com/events

Join their hangout hub headquarters on the open Guilded server: https://www.guilded.gg/r/zzyjKrQ0qE?i=d3737Nkd

 

Crowetic Hardware Development “CHD”

CHD was founded as a third party service provider to the Qortal Project – providing pre-built computers to operate as nodes on the Qortal Network! From laptops and QORTectors, to custom Qortal merch, CHD is a totally optional service for those interested. Get the easiest, fastest and more efficient device to run your Qortal node with this winter’s sale! Custom laptops include updated storage to SSD, a deactivated Intel management engine, and visual and performance tweaks for full functionality, including the battery and power adapter. QORTectors include custom kernels (software) to provide optimized cryptographic and security functions for a reasonably priced 5W dedicated minting machine! https://crowetic.com

Social Media

Crypto Rich

True decentralization is defined by Crowetic in this interview with Crypto Rich. His persona being just another contributor to the creation of Qortal’s infrastructure is the first of Qortal’s guiding principles. He continues by outlining the current state of Qortal and its primary objective of developing into a peer-to-peer, decentralized, free, and private internet supported by a mesh network data service alternative, all done and controlled by the user.

The reason for community-driven birth, Qortal partnerships, the process of minting QORT coin, sponsorship, and the system’s ability to offer each person full control are all explained by Crowetic! 

Rice Crypto Show

In this interview, Crowetic goes on to shed some light on how the base-level infrastructure combined with decentralization offers infinite use cases on the alternative internet Qortal is building. Crowetic points out Etherium’s failure to achieve true decentralization in the financial world and Qortal’s goal to succeed in it as well as other fields, including Qortal’s focus on the average user to take part in minting without the need to compete with the use of computational power but rather only by time contributed to the network.

The memory-based Proof of Work (memPoW), which aims to limit multiple minting accounts per node, prevents system-feeding whales that are overly voracious. The self-sponsorship algorithm’s recent inception and functioning are thoroughly discussed here, along with many other gems like the forthcoming mesh network and free ISP! Don’t miss this insightful discussion!

CryptoMindsetReset – crowetic Talks Qortal @ Virtual CryptoMindsetReset Event December 14th 2022

Qortal co-founder and current dev team facilitator @crowetic speaks on the TRUE crypto RESET with Qortal.

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CryptoMindsetReset

Crowetic is interviewed by RiceTV on this talk, where he shares a bit about his passions and his personal journey on the search for the perfect decentralized solution, all while clearly introducing RiceTV to the decentralized roadmap Qortal is destined to achieve. He comes to tell us the Internet has been captured by some entities, and the obedience to their rule by all paying for a website in a slave matter is a game we can avoid with Qortal. The Internet will be unrestricted and free on the Qortal Network. In this session, our co-founder goes into great depth about how this will be done, the game of minting, potential future ideas, and much more. Tune in this is good stuff!

Declare Your Independence

Ernest Hancock is conducting an interview with Crowetic, one of Qortal’s co-founders. While Crowetic instructs Mr. Hancock on the fundamentals of Qortal and the history of the project, Mr. Hancock shares his perspective and a spot-on clarification on actual and old censorship techniques that we desperately need to solve with decentralized, P2P systems. The conversation is in-depth and covers a wide range of crypto-verse issues. 

Information on how Qortal safeguards your data via DNS and IPFS, as well as information on Qortal’s long-term objective of doing away with the need for ISPs (internet service providers). This is boldly shared here, along with a great deal more: https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/336392-2022-11-29-2022-11-29-ernest-interviews-jason-crowe-qortal.htm

Wiki Qortal

New How-To Guide made for How To Reduce Bandwidth:

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=how_to_reduce_bandwidth

New Ubuntu 22.04 Installation Guide:

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=ubuntu_22.04_with_cinnamon_desktop_setup_guide

Final Words

Numerous additional developments are also being diligently and thoroughly developed. For us, Qortal is more than just a project; it has evolved into a symbol of freedom and a distinct economic system for the future that needs our undivided attention. Qortal’s whole theme and focus is on peer-to-peer solutions (P2P). From becoming a Minter and trading coin, to web hosting and data distribution, the Qortal Project will continue to develop P2P solutions that remove counter party risk and ensure each user is completely in control over their account, its balances, its data, its sovereignty! 2023 will be a year full of feature-rich development. Cheers!

‘’Is not what your family/community can do for you, but what you can do for your family/community’’.

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Discord: https://discord.gg/UqhQCYjVw2

Telegram (general chat): https://t.me/qortal_official

Telegram (tech support): https://t.me/qortalchat

Greetings Qortians! As development continues to knock out new additions like the madmen of raw talent they are, Qortal introduces a completely new piece to its fully custom consensus, a piece meant to remove the ability to run multiple nodes (and thus minting keys) on a single computer — introducing, the MemPoW algo! MemPoW is a major step toward the future and yet another world first for any blockchain. A memory-based Proof of Work is now a requirement in Qortal minting.

Minting rewards have been modified across the board, with a reduction to the founder tier and an increase to the rest of the minting level tiers. (along with a massive reduction to the previous “QORA burn” rewards, which were given as a way to help convert the previous QORA community to Qortal, and it was decided that the initial percentage for that was set way too high.) These decisions were all made by community vote.

The final self-sponsorship changes, which include the self-sponsorship algorithm and a 5 million block reduction for existing self-sponsoring accounts, will be the next key area of development. The long-awaited “Q-Apps,” which will allow developers to create fully fledged applications on Qortal, with cross-name linking, “payment processing,” and a ton of other helpful website and app functionality, are just one of the significant Q-Chat and QDN upgrades that will be made. It appears that Qortal’s “moment to shine” will be at the conclusion of 22 and the beginning of 23.

We’d like to thank our mate Legend Lootz for providing this brand-new newsletter and wish Crowetic, who turned 37 a few days ago, a happy birthday!

Project Update

 

Qortal Data Network QDN

New in Qortal? Discover the Qortal Data Network, one of the platform’s main features. It is what will make it possible to start “creating the internet of the future.” This website serves as a showcase for some of the numerous features available on QDN.

In addition to detailing how to set these things up on your own QDN-hosted website, Crowetic will be demonstrating what is possible on QDN as this page develops (and updating those demos as time goes on to continue to display the newest of QDN’s data possibilities). Use it here: https://qortal.link/crowetic

Additionally, Crowetic recently published instructions for setting up a gateway node here: https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=how_to_host_your_public_data

Sponsorship

MemPoW was implemented on October 22 and put into practice by consensus. Anti-self-sponsorship will be achieved by the MemPoW and the self-sponsorship algorithms working together in the following ways:

1. MemPoW added to consensus — this makes it so that only 2 accounts can be added to a single COMPUTER, regardless. Even if they try to get around it with VMs or containers, as the MemPoW uses memory bandwith, which is shared system-wide, to hash, and create a ‘nonce’ or ‘result’ with a statically assigned difficulty, essentially allowing us to say ‘how long’ it should take for a person to submit a single minting signature. It’s really quite brilliant.
2. Self-sponsorship algorithm — Designed to ‘seek and destroy’ those who have self-sponsored multiple minting accounts. This algo uses available data (more details will come AFTER the algo is live) to find, and apply a ‘blocksMintedPenalty’ to existing accounts proven by the algo to be self-sponsoring. This will completely REMOVE the minting rights of those accounts, by giving them a -5 Million blocksMintedPenalty. Therefore existing and previous self-sponsored accounts will no longer be able to sponsor, or mint. Any of the existing self-sponsors, and ALL of the accounts they have self-sponsored, will be -5 million blocksMinted, using the new addition to the db, blocksMintedPenalty. This is very close to complete, and will be implemented very soon.

With these changes and the network being comprised of only legitimate minters, the Qortal Voting System will be able to be implemented, which means that future changes to the system (such as the addition of new coins supported, etc.) can be made as they were always meant to be, by way of a vote from leveled users of the system. A user’s vote weight will be directly correlated to the number of “blocks” they have “minted” in their minting account; the more time they have dedicated to helping the network by way of minting, the more weight they will have in the voting system. A truly fair voting system for the future of the world.

Qortal Wallet App

Download the brand-new app! As the initial version of the wallet will employ a “hosted node” operated by Traxo, the app will initially only be a wallet and name registration service (items that only require transmitting signed transactions to the core). The option to add your own node and the use of “light nodes” will both be possibilities as the app develops, and when these things happen, more functionality will be introduced to the app as well. Dowload the App here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.qortal.qortalWallet

Another download location (on QDN and accessible on the internet through a public gateway) will be provided shortly for those among us who are “anti-Google.” Keep checking on the “Crowetic” name on QDN for that file to pop-up there.

Android Termux

We now have the ability for the tech-savvy members of our community to RUN A FULL NODE ON AN ANDROID DEVICE. A tutorial is now available. Please take note of the codes and stick to the guidelines here:

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=android_termux

Qnect App

You can currently test the community-developed application, QNect private chat software, which is intended to be a solution for many issues with those powers that shouldn’t be snooping on our minds and activities, for Android and Linux OS systems (Microsoft coming soon).

View and test it out! the download instructions are here:

https://wiki.qortal.org/doku.php?id=qnect_app

Minting Rewards

Thank you, Qortians! A prior community vote resulted in a rise in our block reward percentages and a decrease for the founders. Here are the updated percentages:

Levels 1 and 2 minting accounts share 6% of the block reward
– Levels 3 and 4 share 13% of the block reward
– Levels 5 and 6 share 19% of the block reward
– Levels 7 and 8 share 26% of the block reward
– Levels 9 and 10 share 32% of the block reward
– QORA holders transitioning into QORT coin share 1% of the block reward
– Founders share a minimum of 3!% of the block reward, and/or the ‘leftover’ percentage, which initially will be higher when there aren’t users in all of the various level groups, and will decrease over time.

Please note: below are the original percentages for historical reference:

• Levels 1 and 2 minting accounts share 5% of the block reward
  – Levels 3 and 4 share 10% of the block reward
  – Levels 5 and 6 share 15% of the block reward
  – Levels 7 and 8 share 20% of the block reward
  – Levels 9 and 10 share 25% of the block reward
  – QORA holders transitioning into QORT coin share 20% of the block reward
  – Founders share a minimum of 5% of the block reward, and/or the ‘leftover’ percentage, which initially will be higher when there aren’t users in all of the various level groups, and will decrease over time.

Crisis Event

Don’t miss the inauguration of this event, which our friend Crowetic will be attending with the community, pirates, and freedom fighters. This event is a must-attend in order to have a real, frank discussion about our predicament and empower us all as one. Anyone who feels led to speak is welcome to do so; the event is free and open to everybody. The occasion is scheduled for the week of February 6–10. Find more details here: https://piratechain.com/events

Join their hangout hub headquarters on the open Guilded server: https://www.guilded.gg/r/zzyjKrQ0qE?i=d3737Nkd

Playing Qortal|Portal on New Earth

Simon James from Playing Qortal|Portal on New Earth offers his heart and wisdom from the mystique of the Himalayan mountains that surround him. He gives us a thorough explanation of the history of our system’s engineering, as well as its problems, successes, and potential outcomes. He also shed a great deal of light on how a world full of control mechanisms is no longer alluring or practical for the new generation of people looking for identity and a true and kind community thanks to his awakened mind.

With his Revolution of Values, Simon explains in great detail the causes of our existing financial system’s flaws and its impending demise, the myth surrounding Bitcoin, and the real solution provided by the decentralized blockchain that Qortal offers to all of mankind by bringing the money printer machine to your home. Watch the video up top to enjoy his kind and wise advice at your leisure!

https://odysee.com/@playingqortal:e/videoguide:a?src=embed

Aurea Interview

View Crowetic’s amazing conversation with The Awakened Journalist out from Aurea’s event. Crowetic dispels the myth of decentralization in the cryptosphere in this talk by pointing out that it is only achievable if you take the lead node position. He goes on to describe how Qortal actually accomplishes this in the field, not only in terms of currency but also by using the hardware in your own computer to power the entire internet cosmos: https://unite.live/qortal-blockchain-project/qortal?recording_id=1505

 

MarketWatch

New to Qortal? We’ve developed Qort’s MarketWatch app with all the toys for you to play with whether you’re into TA or just want to learn more about Qort’s history. Watch the video above for a tour of it and download the app here: https://github.com/uniteandconquer/Marketwatch/releases

Crowetic Hardware Development

By using our devices, you will speed up the Qortal network and boost computing power all the while making your rewards safe! For our devoted community, our outstanding devices are engineered to provide the highest performance! They are available at our online store, which also has a large selection of lovely Qortal clothing designs. Visit our fantastic online store right away! https://crowetic.com

Final Words

With several false flag operations and obscene subversion strategies deftly woven into our society, the battle for the money printer machine and mankind as a whole rages on. We don’t precisely know who will win, but we do know that as long as there is a power handling our currency, there will be plenty of possibility for greed or insensitivity to corrupt our handler’s heart because we recognize that power turns the wise into fools and the fool into madmen.

Our dedication to returning power to the people is committed and passionately maintained. Like all modest ideas, Qortal is just getting started, but it is a power that will endure long after we are departed. We anticipate Qortal developing into unthinkable and practical solutions for humanity as long as there are beings unified in goodness and fairness.

Let Us All Unite!