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===== A Quick Overview of Qortal ===== | ===== A Quick Overview of Qortal ===== | ||
- | The Qortal Project will provide a viable solution to the infringement of our digital lives. Our communications are being monitored, free speech censored, | + | The Qortal Project will provide a viable solution to the infringement of our digital lives. Our data and communications are being monitored, free speech censored, social media accounts sanctioned or permanently banned unfairly, and so much more. The blockchain space is riddled with problems such as: 1) Bitcoin and other blockchains have become centralized, |
Qortal aims to provide an unhackable censorship-free platform for a new Internet and systems to be built securely. This technology can provide the world with the freedom we deserve with non-fiat banking, payment transactions, | Qortal aims to provide an unhackable censorship-free platform for a new Internet and systems to be built securely. This technology can provide the world with the freedom we deserve with non-fiat banking, payment transactions, | ||
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*Infrastructure for ethical third-party projects to build on | *Infrastructure for ethical third-party projects to build on | ||
- | The Qortal dev team does not have any control over accounts, balances, censorship, etc. It is up to admins of their sub-communities and individuals to engage in the new system responsibly. Qortal does not have any intellectual property or centralized properties for legal responsibility. No government or powers that be can do anything about it other than shut down the entire Internet and ISP backbone. Even then, we have plans to implement a mesh network and satellite bridge ISP alternative to remove the need for existing | + | The Qortal dev team does not have any control over accounts, balances, censorship, etc. It is up to individuals to engage in the new system responsibly |
- | So who controls the codebase of this ambitious project and are there any vulnerabilities? | + | So who controls the codebase of this ambitious project and are there any vulnerabilities? |
We are only one year into launch and have a lot to work towards, but all of this can and will be done thanks to the strong community we’ve built and continue to grow. We’ve done all of this with hardly any funding and developers! The codebase is open source for both the blockchain and the Raspberry Pi hardware which can operate as a stand-alone desktop and blockchain node. Crowetic Hardware Development (CHD) is a new company that three of the Qortal founders formed to sell these devices to those who wish to simply plug-n-play or want to support the team as CHD will profit share with the Qortal dev team (www.Crowetic.com). For those more technically inclined, they can buy the hardware themselves and follow the help files on the wiki as well as seek tech support in Telegram, Discord or our very own blockchain-based Q-chat to build their own device. | We are only one year into launch and have a lot to work towards, but all of this can and will be done thanks to the strong community we’ve built and continue to grow. We’ve done all of this with hardly any funding and developers! The codebase is open source for both the blockchain and the Raspberry Pi hardware which can operate as a stand-alone desktop and blockchain node. Crowetic Hardware Development (CHD) is a new company that three of the Qortal founders formed to sell these devices to those who wish to simply plug-n-play or want to support the team as CHD will profit share with the Qortal dev team (www.Crowetic.com). For those more technically inclined, they can buy the hardware themselves and follow the help files on the wiki as well as seek tech support in Telegram, Discord or our very own blockchain-based Q-chat to build their own device. | ||
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Funding Qortal has been extremely challenging as there is no intellectual property and was launched ethically with no ICO (initial coin offering), pre-mine, nor airdrop. All of our developers have full-time jobs to support a base income and help with Qortal in their free time. Although it is extremely admirable of the devs to make themselves available for Qortal, it ultimately has caused a slower rate of production than would be possible if we could bring devs on full-time. With such an ambitious and revolutionary project, the rate of production has been a bit frustrating but we are proud to say development is moving forward nonetheless. | Funding Qortal has been extremely challenging as there is no intellectual property and was launched ethically with no ICO (initial coin offering), pre-mine, nor airdrop. All of our developers have full-time jobs to support a base income and help with Qortal in their free time. Although it is extremely admirable of the devs to make themselves available for Qortal, it ultimately has caused a slower rate of production than would be possible if we could bring devs on full-time. With such an ambitious and revolutionary project, the rate of production has been a bit frustrating but we are proud to say development is moving forward nonetheless. | ||
- | So what do we have so far after all these years of hardship and perseverance? | + | So what do we have so far after all these years of hardship and perseverance? |
Phase 1 of our plan was to launch a stable base network, with an immutable ledger, account leveling, sponsorship system, and local wallets. This was quite a hurdle to overcome but we can proudly say that we have succeeded in this objective. We have identified areas of improvement, | Phase 1 of our plan was to launch a stable base network, with an immutable ledger, account leveling, sponsorship system, and local wallets. This was quite a hurdle to overcome but we can proudly say that we have succeeded in this objective. We have identified areas of improvement, |