“Should we still ‘Hold’ Qtum or take your exit as a warning sign?” A one-on-one interview with Ex- lead dev Qtum, Stephen Xu

An Exclusive interview with ex-lead developer of Qtum Stephen Xu. discussing the future of the blockchain technology. and how far we are from blockchain adoption and real use of blockchain, In that interview, we also included some interesting points.
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Key points for this article:

  • Questions from readers
  • Interview Questions
  • Qtum Review: Current state of the project

‘Qtum’ since its crowd sale in March 2017, has gained quite a lot of respect in the developer as well as investor community. The project is a hybrid of the best of Bitcoin and Ethereum plans to make blockchain user-friendly for businesses. The project inherits the UTXO model from Bitcoin for tracking funds and utilizes Ethereum’s EVM to allow smart contracts. With major releases for Qtum yet to be announced, the recent exit of the ex-lead developer of Qtum Stephen Xu has raised some eyebrows. So today we will be interviewing Stephen and asking him questions regarding Qtum and blockchain’s future.

We will start by asking questions from our readers that we received through various social media handles. Though we were not able to address all of them we have selected two of them.

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Sunil Sharma

Sunil is a serial entrepreneur and has been working in blockchain and cryptocurrency space for 2 years now. Previously he co-founded Govt. of India supported startup InThinks and is currently Chief Editor at Coingape and CEO at SquadX, a fintech startup. He has published more than 100 articles on cryptocurrency and blockchain and has assisted a number of ICO's in their success. He has co-designed blockchain development industrial training and has hosted many interviews in past. Follow him on X at @sharmasunil8114 and reach out to him at sunil (at) coingape.com

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