I've dealt with hdclover on the 9.5.13 selling him YACs. He was desperate to get more.

Anyhow I have checked the BTC address he sent my payment from and there is nothing missing. So either hdclover had a different wallet.dat corrupted or did not lose anything.

Anything else, make your own conclusions. And feel free to repost that to the other posts he did.

I've dealt with hdclover on the 9.5.13 selling him YACs. He was desperate to get more.

Anyhow I have checked the BTC address he sent my payment from and there is nothing missing. So either hdclover had a different wallet.dat corrupted or did not lose anything.

Anything else, make your own conclusions. And feel free to repost that to the other posts he did.

I've dealt with hdclover on the 9.5.13 selling him YACs. He was desperate to get more.

Anyhow I have checked the BTC address he sent my payment from and there is nothing missing. So either hdclover had a different wallet.dat corrupted or did not lose anything.

Anything else, make your own conclusions. And feel free to repost that to the other posts he did.

I've dealt with hdclover on the 9.5.13 selling him YACs. He was desperate to get more.

Anyhow I have checked the BTC address he sent my payment from and there is nothing missing. So either hdclover had a different wallet.dat corrupted or did not lose anything.

Anything else, make your own conclusions. And feel free to repost that to the other posts he did.

okpay is rubbish at that. My proof of address had a small color logo on the top right and was black and white otherwise. okpay would reject it automatically... their color-detection algo is broken imho.

However, I loaded the pic in IrfanView, added a bit of color tint (red or blue? can't remember) in the color settings. It went through their automatic check and was soon after accepted.

So many "finance experts" here with their knowledge of market rules based on watching Wall Street the movie. You can go to jail for trading even if you do not have inside information on a stock.

Market abuse covers insider trading and market manipulation. Wikipedia has a good definition of the latter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulationFor example:

So yes, you could eventually go to jail for your proposed actions on a regulated market. I am not a legal expert and don't know if it applies on BTC-e or MtGox, and quite frankly I do not care as I would simply never get involved in such a scheme.

It also makes a lot of sense that the CFTC is planning to regulate the Bitcoins exchanges. If anything it would be good for Bitcoins if it was regulated - at least if you engage in a legal activity and you are not in it for money laundering or fraudulent activities.

Sounds like a coin to pay for speed tickets then?
What if it is only valid on the Autobahn? Autobahngeschwindigkeitsbegrenzungenzahlungsmittel?
And the first pool could be named Autobahngeschwindigkeitsbegrenzungenzahlungsmittelabbauverein.

Please, please pick a shorter name!

How about "Speed Bump Coin"?

Correct - I have mined 3-4 blocks in less than 2h. There was a new block every 2-4secs if I remember correctly, so 900-1800 new blocks per hour. I switched off yacoin-qt sometimes in between, so there are gaps.


Photoshop?

I didn't doubt you may have one rack with a few blades. I know that old blades are cheap on ebay, but are pretty power-inefficient, so usually sold off by large companies. Heck, even one of my colleagues had a rack server at home when I was doing my PhD.

Uh, I feel so bad, 3kW short! And that is for someone who is more into statistics than into building blade farms and didn't bother to google it.
The error in power costs is easy to explain: UK is more expensive.

Yes, that's interesting. It'd be a nice project to have people rent out their CPU cycles for a distributed renderer instead of mining coins... The upload bandwidth would be a bit shitty and introduce some render latency, but probably negligible.

Hmm, our infra team is a bit larger and we do have quite a few outages throughout the year. But then, we are actually running disks in them that fail, discover Redhat-Linux bugs along the way and monitor network latency very tightly.

This is getting more and more bizzarre. Do you argument the same way for checkpoints on the BTC and LTC networks? You don't like a checkpoint because of what? Because it prevents people to attack the network and steal coin? I would think this a very positive thing.

This is a young coin, so the fear of a 51% attack is real. Why would it be good if someone could do that?

BTW, pocopoco did announce the checkpoint in his original thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196196.msg2083242#msg2083242. I rest my case. Stop being bitter if you feel that you've missed out.

If anything you can complain that the starting diff was too low (and that you were not online then, see my posts on "fairness"). There are ~2.34 Mio coins out by now. That still is much less than FTC (6.5 Mio) and CNC (5 Mio).

You are funny. But it gets on my nerve when people are not telling the truth.

1) I mined very successfully with a hexacore Intel i7 up until difficulty 0.1-0.2. From the number of blocks generated I estimated that I was 1/1000 - 1/600 of the network. Check my posts, I posted that when it happened, not when I felt bitter about not getting enough coins or in need to disprove you. Maybe your setup was wrong.

2) You show a pic of 1 blade rack on a table (!) and want us believe you have access to a whole blade center consuming >200kW power and hence costing 1000$ in power alone to operate per day? How much you'd have to sell your YACs for to be profitable?

3) Did you lose your job already? Seriously if you did what you claim you did, you should be worried! Blade centers like this are operated by companies with >>1.000-10.000 employees. I could have tried to use my employers compute blades (20x2x8 xeon cores). Your Infrastructure team must be morons if they have not seen the traffic/CPU etc and acted upon it.

4) you install possibly harmful software on company resources?!? And possibly disrupt company operations? For a few coins? WELL DONE DUDE!

Your definition of fairness is socialism: making as much as everybody else, adjusted for effort. Oh, and of course making as much as everyone else at the cost of someone buying all these coins. Hmm, not quite socialism then.

I'll give it another twist: it is unfair by your definition that you have mined LTC a long time ago where difficulty was low, stashed it away and then sold it for a much higher value than anybody else who sold it after mining it? FRC with demurrage would be more fair by that definition. However, I believe what most people mean by "fair" is that it should make everybody equally rich, quickly and easily.

And here is a last twist: you speak of people seeing or not seeing the value of a crypto. Again, what is the value of a crypto? I'll offer some ideas:
- entertainment (hobby and way to spend time)
- educational (learning about computers, crypto and programs)
- whatever the other guy is willing to pay $$$ (covers speculation and investment)
- a tax efficient way for gambling (BTC trading is the cheapest "lottery" I know of)
- payment processing (yawn, boring)

400 KH/s?
I'm getting merely 200-400kH/s on my Intel hexacore. That said I cannot use the AVX optimisation as it runs inside Virtualbox. However, I don't see how this is a totally different story -- we have the same with ASICs for Bitcoin, GPUs that arrived for Litecoin etc.

YAC might not be more "pure" than other coins. But at least it is a new concept and not a simple clone such as FTC and CNC. I have my doubts whether it is the right concept. But only time will tell.

I also find it hypocritical to ask for a "fair" coin. What is fair? Fair, so that everybody can profit? Fair, so that "I" can profit enough and in particular more than the other guy that I'm envious of? Fair, so I can dump it onto buyers and cash out?

Is anybody even remotely thinking about the original motivation of a coin? To make digital payments easy and secure. Mining surely was more of a necessary evil (consuming Megawatts and 100k$/day) than a wanted aspect of the network. I could think of a strategy that should limit the required mining power.

Yes the trade was successful (2 confirms and counting).

Please remove me from the seller list.

I'm just trying to do a transaction with hdclover.

I've been waiting >1h for a confirm of his BTC payment, but it didn't go through yet.
Is this normal?

edit: I got 1 confirmation now finally. Phew. Not sure how many to wait for...

Successfully traded YAC vs. BTC with hdclover via skype.
No problems apart from the Bitcoin confirms being extremely slow.

There must be a herd/block of YACs running through the network right now! And there were flocking into my wallet!
I didn't get anything for 6h and within the last 1h I got several blocks. Maybe it's because I've been reading the thread and thinking about YACs a lot?     To be honest, I'm quite puzzled by this inconsistency. Might be about network latency or whatever, I don't know.

Wow, the difficulty is really going up now and double every 8h.
It went from 0.073 7h ago (3:25am) to 0.16 now.

We really need a mining pool soon!

These numbers probably don't include orphans/stales. I'm running on an i7 3930k with a hashrate between 200-400kH/s.
I am getting roughly 1 block every 45-60mins confirmed.

The block reward is dropping pretty fast still and is now ~36YAC. As far as I understand the reward decreases with increasing difficulty and increases with increasing N.

Does anybody have an idea when the N increases?

Where do you check if sb. is a scammer?
Is the list on the trade sheet comprehensive?