Internal Testnet: Staker Registrations and Client Restarts This week I had two key achievements on testnet. Perhaps the most significant was that I registered a staker. I describe why this achievement

Stealth qPoS Internal Testnet Week 1 Today, I describe progress and challenges related to Week 1 of the qPoS Internal Testnet. Most of my time this week was spent tracking down multithreading issues. Each

Stealth qPoS Enters Testing Today, I am excited to say that after a painful week of fixing compiling errors, we have the first functional build of the qPoS client. Not only does it build without error,

Essential qPoS RPC Commands and Their Implementation In today’s development update, I document the 12 essential RPC (remote procedure calls) required for users to purchase and modify stakers. These commands

QPoS Development Review and Staker Economics In today’s post, I am excited to review qPoS development so far and to give an idea of what progress needs to be made before testnet and mainnet. I also discuss

Block and Transaction-level Validation of qPoS State Transitions This week I spent almost all of my time writing code to validate qPoS instructions at both the transactional and block level. These instructions

Finishing up Registry Housekeeping and Starting Registry User Operations This week I focused on wrapping up the core registry code and began working on the qPoS opcodes that specify state changes in the

Registry Persistence: Serialization and Storage I devoted this week to implementing registry persistence, a term meaning that the state of the registry is stored on disk and preserved between restarts

Multithreaded Techniques for Registry Synchronization | Using Leveldb for Registry Persistence This week I spent most of my time completing the two central threads for qPoS. I first polished up the block

Developing the Block Production and Registry Sync Loops This week I worked on the two most critical processing threads in quantum Proof-of-Stake (qPoS), which are (1) the block production thread and (2)

Formalizing Validation, Disabling and Enabling Stakers, Staker Termination For this post, I will first continue last week’s discussion of validation, then describe the focus of development for the week.

Cryptocurrencies as Capital I’m going to start this week’s development blog with a discussion that we had on Telegram. In this discussion, I explained how to view cryptocurrencies as capital, in that they

Starting Development: Data Structures I’ll start off by explaining my development process for big projects. First, let me explain that I am not a computer scientist and have no formal training in software

Intro to this Blog Series. First of all, I consider an intro to be antithetical to this blog series because, as a rule, I won’t create post intros or conclusions for this series – unless I feel like it.

For the fourth and final part of our series on the Holy Grail of Crypto, I will discuss the importance of scalability to cryptocurrencies, and how we plan to make Stealth scalable while offering the strongest

Today, in part 3 of our 4 part series on the Holy Grail of Crypto, I define the term "private transactions", explain their importance, and describe how they will be implemented in Stealth. What

In today’s post, I describe the importance of feeless transactions and how we plan to bring them to Stealth. What is a feeless transaction? A feeless transaction is one that does not require an extra payment

Recently, the Stealth team found itself discussing a vision for the perfect cryptocurrency. We came up with a list of four features that we considered essential: • Fast • Feeless • Private • Scalable After

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