This blog reviews the full year 2021 for transaction fees on Qtum Mainnet. Block rewards for staking wallets or delegating addresses consist of two parts: The “subsidy” of newly-minted QTUM The transaction fees and gas In 2021 the subsidy dropped from 4.0 QTUM to 1.0 QTUM with the hard fork…

The Qtum team has released a side loader for the Qtum-developed Ledger app which enables Ledger Nano S users to make smart contract transactions such as QRC20 transfers and offline staking address delegations with Ledger. This report will walk through the installation of the Qtum App into the Nano S…

Qtum recently added minting and managing NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) to the Qtum Web Wallet. In this blog, we follow the steps below to create some NFTs on Qtum Testnet using the Web Wallet: 1. Launch the wallet 2. Set the wallet to run on Testnet 3. Backup the wallet by…

Offline Staking address delegations to a Super Staker provide payouts according to the Proof-of-Stake algorithm: block rewards are based on estimated time with much variance. Payouts from this Super Staker Pool are made daily according to the delegated address percentage contribution to the pool. …

The calendar shows there are just 100 days until Qtum’s first halving on December 1, 2021. In this blog, we review the halving math and fix a previous incorrect capped supply calculation. The Halving Qtum halvings are based on a 4-year interval of 3,942,000 blocks. Every 4 years the block reward drops…

Here is an update on the Qtum Offline Staking Stake-A-Thon which has finished its final month of June. The June prizes have been sent out. In the Stake-A-Thon delegated address division, where 269 delegated addresses qualified for the lucky draw, with 100 winners. In the super staker division for June…

With the hard fork on April 30, 2021, Qtum shifted into the FastLane with 32-second blocks. The halving blocks were adjusted to keep the same pacing for halvings, and the first halving for Qtum will be on December 1, 2021. In this blog, we review how halvings work and the…

Here is an update on the Qtum Offline Staking Stake-A-Thon which is now in its final month of June. You can learn more about Stake-A-Thon and sign up at https://stake-a-thon.qtum.org The May prizes have been sent out. With the new 32-second blocks it has never been easier for small stakers…

It has been a little over a month since the mainnet hard fork to FastLane 32-second blocks on April 30th, 2021. Here are the results for these speedy new blocks in this 6th and final report for the “FastLane” blog series. This hard fork upgraded features on the blockchain and…