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===== Mission Statement ===== | ===== Mission Statement ===== | ||
- | The Qortal | + | Qortal's mission is to create |
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+ | Qortal provides a method | ||
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+ | Much of the rest of the platform, is up to the user to create. Qortal is a community built, community run project that relies upon contributions of the users in order to continue. Donations of time and effort into the platform from members of the Qortal Community, is the only way to create | ||
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+ | Qortal is NOT a platform built to ' | ||
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+ | Qortal has already accomplished nearly every one of its original ' | ||
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+ | Qortal provides | ||
===== Fundamental Principles of Qortal ===== | ===== Fundamental Principles of Qortal ===== | ||
- | Let’s be honest, | + | Qortal is established to provide freedom for every individual within |
- | The Founders | + | In order to accomplish such a goal never before accomplished, |
- | Outside | + | Qortal contains means to establish many different types of additional concepts that have not been planned for development |
- | The current Dev Team are a set of accredited Founders | + | At Genesis, |
- | The Founders also pay homage to the founding concepts behind the original blockchain project which brought this technology to the world’s attention - Bitcoin. To briefly recap, the original concepts behind the white paper of Bitcoin were to: | + | Qortal, like Bitcoin, |
- | * Create electronic “cash” with an emphasis on anonymity and independence from conventional financial institutions | + | * A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) blockchain-based coin (QORT) that is created from block 0 with 0 coins, and minted from there by users of the network. |
- | * Create a method for peer-to-peer transactions to take place on-chain securely | + | * Distributed ledger with both transparency and privacy. (more detail below) |
- | * Create a way for people to be rewarded for supporting the network | + | * Removal of all centralized components from the creation, distribution, |
- | * Make all of this possible with basic computer systems | + | |
- | The problem that Bitcoin | + | However, Qortal, Unlike |
- | Qortal' | + | One of the problems that Bitcoin ultimately ran into was in regard to its mining process, which was intended to create a fair rewards system. Due to the fact that more bitcoin can be mined with larger amounts of compute power, and that alone, only users with large amounts of resources with which to acquire said compute power, can actually take part in the mining process. The concept behind Bitcoin’s original white paper also included alloweing people to mine BTC on their home computers. Over time, however, that was destroyed by the invention of mining software that was much faster running on Graphics processors, then eventually running on ASIC machines, specifically built to mine Bitcoin’s mining algorithm. This led to the centralization of power on Bitcoin’s network and into the hands of people who have enough money to buy massive amounts of the ASIC machines and afford to operate them. |
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- | No user can obtain any influence in the Qortal Network by any other method other than obtaining sponsorship from another minter of Level 5+ or a Founder. Therefore the minters on Qortal are created by other minters and remain legitimate by continuing to run a minting node to support the network where their account gains in level and thus influence. This influence is then portrayed in the Voting System, so the only way influence can be gained on the network is by proving yourself as a legit network node and helping to process transactions. See the Sponsorship section for more info on this. | + | No user can obtain any influence in the Qortal Network by any other method other than obtaining sponsorship from another minter of Level 5+ or a Founder. Therefore the minters on Qortal are created by other minters and remain legitimate by continuing to run a minting node to support the network where their account gains level and influence. This influence is then portrayed in the Voting System, so the only way influence can be gained on the network is by proving yourself as a legit network node and helping to process transactions. See the Sponsorship section for more info on this. |
- | As the platform develops further, other methods of ‘leveling’ will be implemented. Other verified methods of supporting the system will be given the power to level and increase their vote weight on the voting system. For example, a system in the future that rewards content creators for creating good content, that the other users will view and upvote, could be used to create a second method of leveling wherein good content is rewarded. | + | As the platform develops further, other methods of ‘leveling’ will be implemented. Other verified methods of supporting the system will be given the power to level and increase their vote weight on the voting system. For example, a system in the future that rewards content creators for creating good content, that the other users will view and upvote, could be used to create a second method of leveling wherein good content is rewarded. |
===== Intended To Outlive Us All ===== | ===== Intended To Outlive Us All ===== | ||
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The beauty of blockchain technology and Qortal is that the chain cannot be stopped and the project will carry on without hardware dependency of any single person! Qortal is intended to outlive the Founders and become an unstoppable infrastructure for the world to adopt. Qortal will provide an opportunity for anyone in the world to get involved and be rewarded for their contribution to the network regardless of technical expertise, geographical location, or financial status. In theory, virtually any type of ethical online service and operating system could utilize the backbone infrastructure of Qortal. | The beauty of blockchain technology and Qortal is that the chain cannot be stopped and the project will carry on without hardware dependency of any single person! Qortal is intended to outlive the Founders and become an unstoppable infrastructure for the world to adopt. Qortal will provide an opportunity for anyone in the world to get involved and be rewarded for their contribution to the network regardless of technical expertise, geographical location, or financial status. In theory, virtually any type of ethical online service and operating system could utilize the backbone infrastructure of Qortal. | ||
- | With a vision of a platform designed to outlive us all, the current | + | With a vision of a platform designed to outlive us all, the current |
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+ | This is infrastructure we control as a collective worldwide. Peer-to-peer solutions with decentralized blockchain technology to rebuild the Internet, provide the crypto space with a platform to build on, and even internet service solutions - with mesh networking and satellite bridging. | ||
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+ | The overall goal is to be censorship-free, | ||
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+ | Think big! |