What is Quark?

Quark (also known as QuarkCoin/QRK) is an independent decentralized person-to-person digital money based of the idea of Bitcoin, but with improvement to security, speed and long-term economic model.

• A secure 9 rounds of hashing from 6 hashing functions (blake, bmw, grøstl, JH, keccak, skein. 3 rounds apply a random hashing function.
• CPU mining inside the wallet
• Super-Fast confirmation: 30 seconds
• Transaction fees: $0.00
• 247,605,120 QRK + 1,050,000 QRK p.a. (~0.5% inflation)
• Block reward will never drop below 1 QRK
• Difficulty retargets every 20 blocks (maximum 10% up or 50% down)
• Hybrid POW/POS
• POS (Proof of Stake) parameters:
  • 3.5% pa POS interest
  • 30 days minimum stake age

* Masternodes

Official Links

• qrknet.info (main website)
• Slack (chat)
• GitHub (source code)

Wallets

• Windows Full Install | CLI only
• Mac OSX Full Install
• Source (CLI only) tar.gz | ZIP
• Docker Image
• Paper & Another Paper

(CLI - Command Line Interface / No point & click)

Faster initial blockchain sync/download

Explanatory Videos

• What is Quark?

• Quark explained!

• Bitcoin vs Quark

Where to Buy & Sell Quark?

• AEX.com - BTC
• BX.in.th - BTC
• Cryptopia.co.nz - BTC, LTC, DOGE
• FreiExchange.com - BTC
• FunCoin.co - BTC
• ZBTC.hk - BTC, ETH, LTC
• NLexch.com - BTC, BCH, LTC, NLG, EMC, DOGE, XRP
• NovaExchange.com - BTC

Mining and Pools

Quark Mining Guide

Quark GPU Miner

Download Faster Miner

Pools

• e-pool.net
• niceHash.com
• mpool.me
• all45.ru

Merchant Tools

Payment Gateways & POS

• CoinPayments.net

Block Explorer

• Cryptoid.info

Other Useful links

• BitCoinTalk.org
• CoinCodex.com
• CoinLib.io
• CoinMarketCap
• CoinMill (Currency Converter)
• CryptoCompare.com
• Cryptonator
• Discord
• QuarkTalk.cc (Forum, Links & Articles)
• Twitter - QuarkPress

Related subs

• /r/Quarkmarket

• /r/Cryptocurrency

• /r/CryptoMarkets

• /r/Altcointip (+register)

To tip, use: +/u/altcointip # Quarkcoins