What about that 60 BitBar that ohlala accidentally mine ?

We're still waiting for Milkshake's BFL SC photo first.

Link : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=203881.msg2131011#msg2131011

We have to thanks FPGA for this skyrocketing difficulty, though.

Unfortunately, if the coin is good enough, it's usually added on Vircurex too.
Say, if I'm the exchange owner and only add YAC to BtEr, Vircurex copy it and add YAC too, I'd rather go trading at Vircurex because the volume there is bigger.
LTC on bter ? I'd rather trade it on BTC-E.
PPC on bter ? BTC-E already have it.

You have to add special coins that other exchange won't add, like Vircurex's special IXC & DVC so you get the whole volume of that coin for your exchange.
Exchange is mainly made to get profit, not donation and critics.

You want news ?

https://btc-e.com/news/152

Classic reverse scam, eh ?

http://explorer.litecoin.net/address/Lb89cg2fMxeqRqFXeK9awoY7qZHcfWHohC






How someone can get 131 posts in 4 days, is a mystery.

Yet-Another-Scrypt-Coin ?

Actually, the real YAC profitability from CoinChoose drops from 457.26% to 90%, since block reward now is around 20, not 100 anymore.
457.26 % / 5 = 91.452%

freeworm is one of the staff in bter.com, confirmed.

Magic.

Solo Mining ? Get a vps server with low ping, and point your miners there.
Latency is important when difficulty is low.

What about the genesis block and icons ?

What chinese people are you talking about ?
The CNC binary is in English, how do you think Chinese people are going to use it, Google translator ?

Ah, you sell him your bitbar above market price ?
It's currently valued at 0.2 on bter.

He wants to buy it at 0.5 BTC ? If he doesn't send his bitcoin to yours, then it's expected.

Aahzman / Buying BitBars! 0.5 BTC each
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202684.0

Same thing happened with bitbar. 1 BTC ... 0.8 ... 0.7 ... 0.5 .... 0.2 BTC / BitBar.
If you don't want to hold useless coins, you should sell now.

This is to be expected.
With the help of sites like dustcoin or coinchoose, it's very easy to calculate which coin that gives the most profitability.

People mine that coin and then instadump it on the market to get btc.

And there's that Vircurex hacking incident.
The attacker gains root access, and gets vircurex's hot wallet.
I think 30-60% of that stolen alt coin is dumped right now at BTC-E.

Claim
There are reports from various people, that YAcoin has built in wallet stealer.

What you can do
It's a common feature for malware to activate its main task on random date, and add a mark to the computer so it doesn't do the same thing twice (like uploading the stolen wallet.dat twice after your wallet is already uploaded, it's a waste of resource).
Since you can't be too safe, if you have run YAcoin's client or modified minerd.exe and don't encrypt your wallet, make sure you install Bitcoin in another clean computer and send your bitcoin there.
Make sure you password protected your wallet on that new computer.

Does YACoin really have malware module in it ?
Who knows, it's possible that it's a joke, someone wants to drop YAC's price on orderbook.
Or, it's the real deal. The attackers want people to believe that all of the various malware report that we receive now is a joke, and further report will be ignored once the real attack is really launched.
Hence, the investigation.

Investigation
I'll list what I found here :

List of YACoin related binary

yacoin-qt-2013-05-08.zip (yacoin's main client, uploaded during YACoin launch)
https://mega.co.nz/#!UowEmZYS!AAK7DVwYoTqy96oTRzUaLCS0UMsAfosJiRQmBn1jzcA
Detection ratio : 0 / 46 https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7381b3ea8e872d860cf8279b98cb74a01cd21ecebaa1af7e537a040b6c5ad1e7/analysis/1368286925/

yacoin-qt-2013-05-09.zip (yacoin's main client, updated binary)
https://mega.co.nz/#!5wgDnKyZ!QLfWTXNRMRTwmb60rfpuFgzH48BCl4fpwb8paeAaqRs
Detection ratio : 0 / 46 https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8c1b9dcc90e163a357b3861c10d8cec67c351a928e0b5e1e0dcf74d65d4a4b76/analysis/

cpuminer-scrypt-jane-win32.zip (modified minerd to mine yacoin on multiple computer)
hxxp://mega.co.nz/#!IJRziTBD!ZCAKGC7fqYkyXsEDi9GB1RYiqIUqj2S9bEm6UI2y1no
Detection ratio : 6 / 46 https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2b7e630cfb2d173eb14e4dd88a7879527f5c52cbc77ace0c0742942aad46faec/analysis/1368286565/

"antivirus friendly" version of minerd (don't download this, very suspicious)
hxxp://mega.co.nz/#!shoxkb5b!DjiCAQBQ627TaW0oet1C7mvqM7Q2-2u-g4kDRHbniU4
From : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201050.0
Detection ratio : 16 / 46 https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0ffa2116bf1027019ad94e9bf8e2340be427d6efbc9563e185096cf8550b4c3a/analysis/1368287421/

minerd_scrypt_jane.ZIP (another modified minerd to mine yacoin on multiple computer)
https://mega.co.nz/#!pUMBkbbY!cMJYcFqPCMr1idZBr30VsFw0tLY7y63J0N4RVNYMUBc
Detection ratio : 0 / 46 https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/01a79a608d33d1db4eb9382db029e89e581f6e0017ddb566e7826b45370596fd/analysis/

All investigation should be done in clean Virtual Machine, otherwise, it's useless since it's possible that your computer is already marked and the malware won't run wallet stealing routine twice.

"Victim" List - Alternate cryptocurrency section

FreeTibet / Jr. Member / Posts: 11 / DO NOT DOWNLOAD YACOIN - SENDS WALLET.DAT TO http://bitcoin-ticker.netne.net/u.p

Lewies Man / Jr Member / Posts: 45 / 2.374 bitcoins stolen after downloading yacoin


Brewins / Jr. Member / Posts: 69 / Yacoin developer stole more than 256 BTC!

D35TR0Y3R / Full Member / Posts: 108 / WARNING: YACOIN HAS A VIRUS BITCOIN STEALER

nocompare / Jr. Member / Posts: 14 / yacoin developers are a bunch of crooks, steals 900 BTC

"Victim List" - Newbie section

moneytronics / Posts: 1 / YACOIN STEALS YOUR WALLET DO NOT USE

jebwizoscar /  Posts: 5 / yacoin trojan

danieljoseph /  Posts: 1 / yacoin stole my 14.25 btc

SquishySquish /  Posts: 6 / bitcoin sent from my wallet?

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It's down, at the same time as Vircurex gets hacked.

You know, Bitcoin testnet is still around with difficulty of 1, and there are people that want to buy testnet coins.