Qora is a true 2nd generation cryptocurrency, the first of its kind. Written entirely from scratch and not based on any other cryptocurrency, Qora was designed from the ground up to solve Bitcoin’s biggest problems along with the implementation of exciting new features. As promised early on, the source code of Qora has now been fully released to celebrate the successful first year of this evolving, feature-rich project.

1. Qora will now be full open source. There were a few items awaiting approval before they could be released. Apparently that has now been approved.
2. AT Team will continue with AT integration as normal. They will create the next wallet as was planned and run it on testnet for a while, then release it once everything checks out.
3. If the lead dev releases the full source code before AT Team completes their new wallet, the new code will be merged into the AT version. And if it's released afterwards they said they will add it and put out an updated wallet.

Map of coins: the history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin to dogecoin and more

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Visualized history of cryptocurrencies from bitcoin launch up to present day: over 200 altcoins on one map. Information on the most valueable ideas and more

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Just before last New Year’s, 19-year-old Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian college dropout and Bitcoin enthusiast, had an idea. By the end of last week, that idea had attracted more than $5 million in the first week of its pre-sale — a new kind of crowdfunding that crypto-currency makes possible. Not bad, especially considering that nobody knows whether the idea will really work.

Twisted History of Ripple and Stellar Aired in Tell-All Report

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In what can only be described as a bombshell report, The Observer has published a near 15,000-word story that takes a detailed look at the allegedly sordid history of decentralized payment network startups Ripple Labs and Stellar, and the impact of this relationship on events in the wider bitcoin ecosystem.

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin inspires me to offer a contribution to the cryptocurrency community (a.k.a. Crypto 2.0). Buterin observes how many different projects are underway within the community, working on cryptocurrencies, blockchains, smart contracts, distributed ledgers, decentralized consensus and the like. 

These projects include Bitcoin, myriad altcoins, Bitshares, Ethereum, Counterparty and others. More projects will come. 

Many of these projects are open source. Many of them celebrate their informality. Legal formalities were scarce when Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin.

Buterin recommends that the folks working in their different projects (he calls them “silos”) make their projects inter-operate, all for the greater good. Particular projects may come to specialize in offering browsers, blockchain services or decentralized applications (DApps) that can help other projects.

Final Thoughts My vote is, no, this is not a clone.  If Qora was inspired by Nxt, I would make the guess that he read up a lot on it, possibly read through the source and thought "I can do that" and gave it a go at writing his own application.  Qora uses mostly different libraries and is structured significantly different.   I also assume that Qora is a professional day-time coder, who works with a team of devs at a software firm or possibly large company.  Nxt feels like good, solid code, but it doesn't adhere to strict practices that big-team developers tend to follow since they are use to having to organize and share  code with co-workers.  I know that open source projects are often shared across devs, but having worked in both environments I can attest that "good" developers, in both areas of software engineering tend to have different coding approaches and styles because requirements differ.  Qora feels like it's written by an experienced, professional business coder, while Nxt feels like a large, open source project. One piece of software isn't necessarily better than the other but they look VERY different.  This adds to strong evidence supporting that this is almost certainly NOT a clone.

- rlh

First look thoughts:  1. This is definitely not another Nxt fork 2. What's in native libs? I guess the should be opensourced as well. 3. I did successfully run Qora under Intellij Idea by importing Eclipse project in the repo and adding native libs to a project 4. JSON settings are looking cool, but comments are needed, I guess, especially for non-coders 5. Got unsafe memory issue related to MapDb https://github.com/Qora/Qora/issues/8 . I guess it's better to avoid off-heap operations, for current MapDb state at least. I bet I did read Jan Kotek's article on how to do that. 6. Worse issue, I got not much useful message trying to run a node after crash https://github.com/Qora/Qora/issues/9 . Verbosity matters here. 7. Code seems to be more clean & easier to read than Nxt at the moment. However, after adding features / patches it could be the same, so have luck guys     And formatting isn't Sun(Oracle)'s standard http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconvtoc-136057.html (the same is true for Nxt).  8. Commented code is not good and not necessary with VCS (the same is true for Nxt at the moment as well) 9. What's the Orders launcher about   10. Any detailed description of Arbitrary Transaction available?

- kushti

Qora Source Code Released

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Public GIT for the Qora cryptocurrency project.

BitBeat: Bitcoin 2.0 Companies Respond to SEC Rumor: We’re Clean

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Concerns about an SEC crackdown on so-called Bitcoin 2.0 companies may not be warranted.

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Meanwhile, BitShares, which uses the eponymous name “bitshares” to describe tokens issued by autonomous, software-driven companies over its independent blockchain-based software, says these are not securities either, despite their name. The implied reference to corporate shares is “an analogy,” says Daniel Larimer, CEO of Invictus Innovations, which developed the BitShares project. “I could use other analogies that view the dollar as stock in the United States. An analogy does not create a security.” The key, he said, is that there is no contract between two parties contained in the digital tokens.

Bitcoins and Gravy Episode #38: Bitshares Music Foundation

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On today’s show I am pleased to have back on the show Cedric Cobban and Eddie Corral of the Bitshares Music Foundation. Cedric and Eddie talk to me about the music business – past, present and future.

The Cryptomarkets Week in Review: October 16th, 2014

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It’s been an exciting week – as nearly every week is – for the world of cryptocurrency, and cryptomarkets have been no exception to that. As always, when the news cycle is active, the prices become more volatile. The top stories from this past week have been mostly positive.