Quarkcoin Announces Big Internal Changes
Quarkcoin developers have announced that big changes are coming to their coin's infrastructure. In an announcement, James Z., webmaster at qrk.cc and quarkfoundation.cc, stated that he and a team talked with creator Max Guevara and his partner Adam about the future of Quarkcoin in an IRC chat. CCN. Quarkcoin claims to be the most secure coin in cryptocurrency, stating that is has 9 rounds of hashing from 6 different hash functions. It runs on the same protocol as Bitcoin, Proof of Work, SHA256, but claims transaction speeds of 30 seconds. In the announcement, James stated that he, Julie,....
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Mt. Gox has stopped bitcoin deposits and all internal bitcoin transfers for a short site maintenance update, roughly from 6pm to 12am Japan time on 15th February. According to a notice posted on Gox's News page, the downtime is part of its implementation of a solution to the 'transaction malleability' issue that has seen the exchange halt all external bitcoin withdrawals and face criticism from some sectors of the bitcoin economy. The downtime probably won't affect too many users. With Mt. Gox's bitcoin price now hovering around the $342 mark (at least $300 below the CoinDesk BPI) and the....
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