The Qtum project started in March 2016, a year before our successful crowdsale. We are now entering our 3rd year of operations. Most people heard about us in early 2017, when the industry landscape was a lot different. Bitcoin was around $1000.00, and many people were just hearing about Blockchain technology. The project has come a long way, so thank you all for being a part of it.

Protect your Qtum

We want to make sure the first section of this document focuses on protecting your tokens. We would also like to remind you to be on the lookout for people or projects claiming they are (or were) affiliated with Qtum. If you’re staring at a message about an airdrop, or a new wallet service, always get in contact with our team members. If you see an advertisement that states Qtum or one of our team members is advising a project, just ask us. Finally, the most important thing to remember: never leave your tokens on an exchange. If you do not possess your private keys, you do not own your tokens.

Here is a ‘best practices’ guide that explains how you can safeguard your tokens:

Third Roadmap Under Construction

Many of you have seen the first two roadmaps. Both versions have been completed, and we will release a new version that shows what the developers are working on. To date, we have released 22 wallet updates, and scores of other functionality. We released our first test network within 3 months of closing the crowdsale, another one 6 weeks later, followed up by Ignition in September.

If you would like to follow the public Github to see our latest commits, click this link:

The First Qtum Roadmap

The Second Qtum Roadmap

Qtum in San Francisco

Earlier this year, Jordan Earls, Qtum’s co-founder and lead developer, spoke at Tokenfest in San Francisco. At the conference, Earls gave a lightning talk and took part on a panel titled Convergance: Blockchain Empowerment. Earls, who is also the co-chair of the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Smart Contracts Alliance, alluded to the industry wide implications of Qtum’s x86 virtual machine, which is currently under development.

Following the conference, Jordan went to the Qtum Developer meetup in SF with Bodhi. In addition to Jordan speaking, Bodhi’s founder, Xiahong Lin, and technology lead, Frank Hu, gave a presentation on the status of Bodhi. Bodhi’s team expressed an optimistic outlook for their platform to be released. Bodhi’s innovative oracle design has illustrated promise because of the interest observed from other projects.

Qtum at the DC Blockchain Summit

Circulating Supply Updated

There was an article released lately that broke down the Qtum circulating supply for our 3rd year of operation. The summary states that there will be about 6 million additional tokens unlocked in March 2019 and 2020. This will put all 100 million tokens into circulation. Please keep in mind the Qtum Foundation does not sell tokens on exchanges, for more information, please see the article:

Qtum Electrum & QRC20 Support for Trezor/Ledger

You can now use your Ledger and Trezor hardware device with the Qtum Electrum release:

There is also a web wallet that is much like myetherwallet.com called qtumwallet.org

This site does not hold your private keys, nor does it ask for any personal information. You can back up your tokens with your Ledger device. Trezor support may arrive in the future, but that functionality is not being worked on currently.

https://qtumwallet.org/

Patrick on Yicai

Wallet update 0.4.16

We released a new version of the Qtum wallet software, please update if you are running an older version:

This is an optional update, but it’s a good idea to stay up to date on the latest releases.

v0.14.16 — Improvments and Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where transactions with low fees would get stuck in the local mempool.

Fix a bug with clearing cache of StorageResults

Add contract support to “createrawtransaction” rpc call

Add sender support to “sendtoaddress” rpc call

New Qtum Wallet Website

Qtumeco.io

We have been asked many times why we do not host our wallet files on our website. Up until now, we have just linked to our Github, just like most other projects. The Win64 binaries get flagged by virus scanning websites for the false positives contained in the Proof-of-Stake mining software. This is why we created a new site, which still links to Github, but looks a bit nicer.

http://qtumeco.io/

The Qtum Nodemap Explained

We have been asked lately how we capture the nodemap information. It’s actually quite simple. The Qtum Team hosts seed nodes around the world, and we capture the IP addresses of people who connect to them in order to populate the nodemap. Whenever we encounter a full node, the website puts a ‘dot’ on the map based on the information we have available. The locations may not be 100% accurate, but the actual numbers are correct. There is likely more nodes than what is reported, as our hosted nodes may not ‘discover’ all of the others.

It would not be difficult for someone to recreate the nodemap, all that is required is a simple script and some nodes setup in strategic locations.

Here are some of the scripts we use for the nodemap:

Bodhi / Qtum Meetup in SF April 13th

Xiaohong from Bodhi

We recently attended a meetup in San Francisco with Bodhi, a Qtum QRC20 Decentralized Application. They are preparing to launch their main network on April 23rd, so we wanted to be sure to support them. If you are interested in participating in their prediction network, please visit their website at:

The Bodhi main network was released on April 23rd, click below for more information:

Wharton Summit April 2018: University of Pennsylvania

Qtum co-founder, Patrick Dai, speaking at the Wharton Summit in Pennsylvania

A lot of prominent figures spoke at this conference. Patrick was invited as a guest speaker for the Technology Innovation section, along with Jeff Garzik from Bloq, and Kuadi founder Chen Weixing.

For a list of other speakers at this event, please see the link below:

Patrick Dai at Draper University

Patrick Dai recently gave a speech at Draper University about Blockchain technology. He is a recent graduate from DU, along with 2 other Qtum staff members; John Scianna, and Natalie Shun. Tim mentioned that Patrick was the first “Unicorn” graduate, which means the first person to bring a company (or project) to a 1 billion dollar+ evaluation. Click the link below to see the video: