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Qtum (@qtum): Qtum is Available on RISC-V

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Qtum is Available on RISC-V Right now, the Qtum team is updating all our backend infrastructure, including seed nodes and block explorers to the latest version 29.1 to get ready for the hard fork that will happen in early 2026. We're getting docker images sent to service providers and so forth. We decided to try compiling a Qtum node using the latest RISC-V, pronounced "Risk 5". This means it's the 5th version of the Reduced Instruction Set Computer that came out of USC Berkeley. It's also an open design, unlike ARM which closed and licensed. This means anyone who wants to make use of RISC-V hardware, can do so in any way they want without paying royalties or obtaining licenses. The efficiency of these boards are really nice. A comparable ARM-based board with 8gb RAM struggled to handle the Qtum node, but the RISC-V board is handling it well. If you have a RISC-V board, it's easy to compile Qtumd with cmake. You can download the source on our Github: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/releases/download/v29.1/qtum-29.1-riscv64-linux-gnu.tar.gz

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