[QRK] QuarkCoin Mining

 Specifications 

* Super secure hashing: 9 rounds of hashing from 6 hashing functions (blake, bmw, groestl, jh, keccak, skein). 3 rounds apply a random hashing function.
* CPU mining
* Quick block generation: 30 seconds
* 2048 QRK per block (halving every 60480 blocks ~ 3 weeks)
* Block reward will never drop below 1 QRK
* Total of 247 million QRK will be mined in ~ 6 months, after that ~ 1 million QRK p.a. (~ 0.5% p.a inflation)
* Difficulty retargets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)

 Downloads 

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

Windows Qt wallet:
http://www.quarkcoin.com/quarkcoin083r3win.zip
http://download.qrkblock.com/quarkcoin083r3win.zip
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wdWl5Qms1ZHRkOXM/edit?usp=sharing
    File hashes:
        md5 ed0dbc49bdc1e0d7cef3acd043d90f20
        sha1 042dd72da0c3d93f5f1ab71a781d63cedf50a4d7
        sha256 9d2970965789c2e144f0faedc2b0b25ed6012804274d56c14b778a2056d33d12

Linux Qt wallet (x64)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wbWVjN056bkdtTzQ/edit?usp=sharing
    File hashes:
        md5 6260d0fb4aacaf8dac5dc3718a03b108
        sha1 dd0270e89d3c15a2bb9832d1441857fb1c528a3d
        sha256 908683382c6de75ad2da26b701a41c7ebb87f2de00982647ecfecdc3e254b7f2

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

21 Nov 2013 - Github source code updated with checkpoint.
04 Aug 2013 - Github source code updated with checkpoint.

 Standalone miners 

Neisklar's Quark version of CPU Miner (source code):
I finally got rid from the last pieces of GPL'ed code in my own miner and can now release it to the public. This miner is not free, a royalty of 1/8 (12.5%) is deducted from every mined block. (Coinbase transaction have 2 outputs, so I get my fee at exactly the same moment you'll get your coins).

Download :https://mega.co.nz/#!QMMEFBYY!AgH4OGrKaRHkRjiVfVXXzxBHbTIlgdD5o3ak2VFuU78

Edit quarkcoin.conf (or Offering.conf, or securecoin.conf) file of your wallet to enable solo-mining, put your own username and password there:
listen=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=8772
server=1

Edit sm.cmd from downloaded archive, put your own username, password and wallet address there:

smelter -o http://127.0.0.1:8772 -u username -p password -a QNiGvoYctyMwzV1ZjNbjhEoKdQVzFKsmVw

This is pre-alpha software, expect all kinds of bugs to be found, don't hesitate to report it here!
NVidia and old/rare AMD cards are not supported. Please, give me some time to iron out bugs
Original release of Neisklar's Quark CPU Miner (source code) - https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByuuhJDWrO0wVXhULTFEOWMtaTQ/edit?usp=sharing
Stonefoz's miner (source code)
http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark.zip
http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark2.zip


 Web sites 

Quark
http://www.quarkcoin.com/
Forums
http://forum.qrk.cc/
http://quarktalk.com/

 Mining instructions

* Launch your wallet with -gen=1, or add "gen=1" to your quarkcoin.conf file, or type "setgenerate true -1" from the debug console
* See here for a VPS mining guide: http://miner4world.blogspot.com/2013/12/quarkcoin-mining-on-vps.html
* Various optimised standalone miners available

 Example quarkcoin.conf file

listen=1
maxconnections=80
gen=1
genproclimit=-1
rpcuser=myusername
rpcpassword=mypassword
rpcport=9999
server=1
daemon=1

 Ports

11973 Network port

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

 Exchanges

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

 Block explorer

http://explorer.andarazoroflove.org/quark/block_crawler.php
http://qrkblock.com/ (coming soon)

 Pools

P2Pool - http://176.221.46.81:8372/static/
ex_mac's Pool - http://qrk.mine-pool.net/
feeleep's Pool - http://qrk.coinmine.pl/


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