Topic: Qtum - UTXO based POS Smart Contracts | TESTNET LIVE!

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The Qtum project sold nearly 97% of the available tokens in the first few days: qtum.org/en/crowdsale



The sale will now be in phase 2 for the next few days, or until it sells out the remaining 3%. See below:

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The crowd-sale is completed, it sold out in 117hrs~
 Here is a message from the Qtum team:

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The Qtum Test Network Has Been Released:



https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/tag/testnet-sparknet

Instructions on how to compile from source are listed in the Git. Please see the documentation provided:

Code: [Select]

Quickstart

Build on Ubuntu

This is a quick start script for compiling Qtum on  Ubuntu


sudo apt-get install build-essential libtool autotools-dev automake pkg-config libssl-dev libevent-dev bsdmainutils git cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev

# If you want to build the Qt GUI:
sudo apt-get install libqt5gui5 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum
cd qtum
# Update cpp-ethereum submodule
git submodule update --init --recursive

# Note autogen will prompt to install some more dependencies if needed
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j2

If you would like to receive Test Network tokens, please PM this account with your address and we will get them sent ASAP.  These test tokens will have no value, so you are free to share them with others for testing. We will have a faucet set up shortly, along with a Win64 QT shortly.

Right now the team is preparing for our launch event in Shanghai, so it may be a touch busy on our side for the next day.

Visit the Qtum Website: https://qtum.org/en/
Join the Qtum Slack: https://qtumslack.herokuapp.com/

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The Qtum team is live in Moscow at the http://blockchainhack.ru/ hackathon!

Wish the participants good luck as they compete for 8500 Qtum tokens. This is live in Moscow July 1st-2nd

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From the blog post: https://qtum.org/en/blog/qtum-tokens-announcement
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Qtum Tokens Announcement
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Qtum Tokens Announcement
July 10, 2017
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At the request of many Qtum community members, a Qtum ERC-20 token will be released today, Monday, July 10th, and given to the partners that participated in the crowdsale.
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This will enable users to withdraw their tokens off the exchange they used into ETH wallets that support ERC-20 tokens, like imToken and MyEtherWallet. Please test with small amounts first.
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The Qtum mainnet is still on schedule to be released in September, which is when these tokens will be allowed to be swapped with Qtum.
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Thank you for your understanding and support of the Qtum project!
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Qtum Foundation

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QTUM: Building a Better Blockchain Governance
https://hackernoon.com/qtum-building-a-better-blockchain-governance-e2188cc34422
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Moscow's Blockchain Hackathon Reflects Booming Blockchain Industry in Russia
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/moscows-blockchain-hackathon-reflects-booming-blockchain-industry-russia/


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What is a blockchain fork?
https://medium.com/@Qtum/what-is-a-blockchain-fork-16cef86c0ad8

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Energo Labs' First Meetup
https://qtum.org/en/blog/energo-labs-first-meetup


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See the Qtum "Defining the Blockchain Economy" video here:
https://youtu.be/RS_wd_jmJng

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Dev Update Week of July 7th
https://forum.qtum.org/topic/218/dev-update-week-of-july-7th

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Test Network wallet is available on GitHub
 https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum

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Dev Update Week of July 17th to July 21
https://forum.qtum.org/topic/227/dev-update-week-of-july-17th

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Congrats D-Rex for winning the Qtum $10k Prize at the DistLedger St. Louis Blockchain hackathon
https://devpost.com/software/d-rex

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Qtum Weekly Updates?Week of July 24th
https://medium.com/@Qtum/qtum-weekly-updates-week-of-july-24th-b081bb8582ce

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Qtum’s Patrick Dai Named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” List
https://medium.com/@Qtum/qtums-patrick-dai-named-to-forbes-30-under-30-list-2f5c15531209

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Qtum Community & Development Updates — August 7

Insight into Blockchain & Qtum — Patrick Dai
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The Qtum team has been busy developing just like almost every team in the blockchain space. The more people we meet, the more questions we get asked, but they tend to start with the basics. What is Blockchain? What are tokens? Where’s the meaning in the Qtum project? What’s the difference between Qtum, EOS, Ethereum, and every other blockchain? And, what’s the difference between an ICO and equity financing?
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For many of these questions, it’s difficult to have an accurate understanding. There are many reasons causing this problem. One being that blockchain technology is a combination of a concept of technological change and organizational change, which can be difficult to explain to the general public.
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Before 2014, the industry didn’t have an idea of what is a blockchain. From 2009–2014, industry practitioners just called everything a coin or cryptocurrency. Since 2014, the industry has changed to advancing beyond the technology being used for its financial attributes.
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Blockchain networks themselves are a complex set of systems and software engineering, mathematical principles, cryptography, network architecture, consensus mechanisms, and economic models. Without the cultivation of higher education in a science and engineering background, it’s difficult to understand.
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Expecting everyone to understand the technology behind the blockchain, the innovations in the space and get an accurate understanding of the project, is similar to expecting everyone to understand the concept of partial derivatives in calculus, and binary entropy functions. For the most part, fewer than 1% of the population will every truly understand all these different aspects that make the technology what it is.
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This is why, most of the time, explaining blockchain technology to “CEOs,” “journalists,” or “anonymous” and having them try to make a judgment of a project, is especially hard. No matter how intelligent a person is, most people limit their expertise to a particular field.
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If blockchain technology itself were only a simple technology innovation, it wouldn’t have caused such a massive uproar between scientists, economists, mathematicians, government officials, the press and so forth. The blockchain is the essence of change in what we can conceptualize.
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In the form of organization reconstruction, the transformation of social collaboration mechanisms, pooling together, creating a new concept. This concept is ordinarily difficult to recognize all of a sudden, and even if we understand it clearly, it can be difficult to accept.
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If someone told you, in the next 30 years, perhaps all the companies will disappear, everyone will say you are a crazy. But this kind of “company” organizational structure, in the thousands of years of human history, has only existed for 300 years.
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Blockchain development can make humanity quickly establish a new kind of “organization structure,” this kind of autonomous organization structure exists on the blockchain network, protocol, and in our minds. Everyone can grasp the idea of a company. But I feel the next era will be this is a protocol-based commonwealth.
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A protocol-based commonwealth with the development of Internet and blockchain technology will make virtual organizations become mainstream in the next 10 to 20 years.
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Qtum will be part of the new era of societal collaboration.
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Read more: https://medium.com/@Qtum/qtum-community-development-updates-august-7-ffd19d84e0ac

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The Qtum team will be in Seoul hosting a meetup on August 16th, contact them if you'd like to attend!
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Email: foundation@qtum.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/QtumOfficial/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/QtumOfficial
Forum: https://forum.qtum.org/
Slack: https://qtumslack.herokuapp.com/
Wechat or QQ:  https://qtum.org

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The 2nd Qtum Test Network, Skynet, is now live:
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https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/tag/testnet-skynet
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