[YAC]: YaCoin Information Thread

[rbdrbd]

I wanted to put together this info thread on YaCoin to help others learn about it and centralize all info on it in one place. Please feel free to reply to it and suggest anything that could be added or modified. I've modeled this page after the LiteCoin information thread here.

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The [YAC] YaCoin Information Thread



What Makes YaCoin different than other AltCoins?

* Currently the only CPUMined coin (with all other altcoins, CPUMining has become unprofitable as GPUs, FPGAs and/or ASICs can do it much more efficiently.
  * Means that anyone can get involved with mining YAcoins. You don't need a fancy AMD video card, and a complex miner program with a lot of technical know-how
  * This may also mean that the YaCoin coin distribution is and/or will be more widespread, and thus more democratic (this is speculation at this point)
  * Also means that YaCoin could see a larger, more sustainable network hashrate, as miners can co-mine it along with GPU-based coins
* PoS and PoW (long-term power efficiency)
* Ultra-fast confirmations
* A reasonably good developer (pacopaco) and an enthusiastic community

The creator of yacoin (pocopoco) states the following about any potential move of GPUs over to mine YaCoin:
"it is possible to develop OpenCl or cuda miner for scrypt(N, 1, 1). But the CPU / GPU hashrate difference will be less than 10 times and will decrease over time. So GPU's contribution into miner's total hashrate (even in case somebody will implement this) will be like one or two additional CPU cores. This is because scrypt will need more and more fast random access memory with N increased." (Source)

General YaCoin Info
      YaCoin Announcement Thread - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196196.0
      YaCoin Homepage - http://www.yacoin.org/
      YaCoin Forums - http://yacointalk.com/
      YaCoin Network Stats - NONE? (Who can make one?)
      YaCoin @ Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/yacoin

      YaCoin Block Explorers
          http://yacexplorer.tk/

     YaCoin Charts
         Coming soon...

     Client Downloads
          Source: https://github.com/pocopoco/yacoin
          Windows (zip): Megashare
          Linux: Compile from source (see above)

          Win x64 Miner: Thread
          
          CPUMiner (Linux): Source  /  Instructions
          Using CPUMiner provides a better mining experience for many, especially those accustomed to cgminer-type features and functionality. It also makes use of mining pools possible.
 

     YaCoin mining calculators
          Coinchoose (NOT YET)

 
 
YAC Exchanges
      Bter.com - Here

     (OLD) Google Docs: Spreadsheet  / Discussion

     YAC Financial Sites
          None yet.

        
YACoin Mining Pools (Pushpool/mmCFE)
     http://yac.dontmine.me/
     http://yac.coinmine.pl/

YACoin Mining Pools (P2Pool)
     http://pool.yacointalk.com:8336/
     http://pool.bitcn.org:8336/
     http://yac.procrypto.com:8336/
     http://yacpool.tk:8838/



 
YACoin faucets
      YACoin Giveaway Thread - Here
      YACoin Faucet - Here[url]/

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[rbdrbd]

Reserved.

[kalgecin]

atleast we're getting things moving

[jayjay2244]

Nice thread . keep it up to date

[xibeijan]

Reserved.

Does anyone know how to enable PoS mining with YaCoin?

[kalgecin]

yeah.... i was also wondering.....

[Adamlm]

very nice summary of YAC related info, I will be watching
PS. The logo is awesome

[Boba]

I thought yacoin.com is being worked on by pocopoco, perhaps he wanted it to be finished before launch, and thats why the launch got delayed. But this is just speculation on my part.

[barrywu2013]

GPU mining too plz

 

 

 

[donjonson]

Great compilation! Good work rbdrbd.

[zhaojundong]

hello
maybe we can make the site together
yacoin.org
i love this coin and want to make it better

[wesjuhnl]

hello
maybe we can make the site together
yacoin.org
i love this coin and want to make it better

You have alot of these coins i guess hahah

[kalgecin]

http://yacoin.webs.com/

[xibeijan]

As more an more people actually try out YaCoin, it will become clear how fast (and robust) transacting in YAC really is.  At this point, early on, it must be a little unclear.

As more and more folks give mining a go (as N increases), it will start to become clear whether even CPUs can mine blocks throughout time.

Hopefully YaCoin will attract more developers and also sites will start to accept YaCoin.  I think there was already a gambling site that is accepting it.  Saw a forum topic.

[zhaojundong]

hello
maybe we can make the site together
yacoin.org
i love this coin and want to make it better

You have alot of these coins i guess hahah

no……
i live in china
so i missed the best time to mine
and my pc is p6100
so……

[GSnak]

Sucks that pacopaco is only reasonably good.

[bitdwarf]

http://www.reddit.com/r/yacoin
http://www.reddit.com/r/yacoinmining

[xibeijan]

Sucks that pacopaco is only reasonably good.

We just don't know yet.  We have to see if he keeps the YaCoin software stable and continues to develop and fix bugs.

His idea is genius, so I've got faith in him.

We should probably change the text on those pages from saying "reasonable" to something like "totally amazin'"

[xibeijan]

Sucks that pacopaco is only reasonably good.

Well to be fair, he did commit some huge changesets all within something like 36 hours.  There have not been that many bugs.  The idea seems solid.

Perhaps it's unfair to say "reasonably".  Perhaps we should say "awesome".

Let the plebs decide.

[kalgecin]

These were calculated at intervals of  5 minutes per line

Code:

kalgecin@laptop:~/yacoin/src$ perl ~/yacoin.pl
Seconds per block: 5.88235294117647
Seconds per block: 6.52173913043478
Seconds per block: 7.31707317073171
Seconds per block: 7.69230769230769
Seconds per block: 7.69230769230769
Seconds per block: 8.33333333333333
Seconds per block: 6.25
Seconds per block: 7.31707317073171
Seconds per block: 6.97674418604651
Seconds per block: 6.38297872340426
Seconds per block: 6.12244897959184
Seconds per block: 6.81818181818182

for people interested:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use JSON; 
$input = `./yacoind getinfo`;
#print "Input:\n".$input."\n";
$json = JSON->new->allow_nonref;
$arrs = $json->decode($input);
$oldblocks = $arrs->{'blocks'};
sleep 300;
while(1==1){
	$input = `./yacoind getinfo`;
#	print "Input:\n".$input."\n";
	$json = JSON->new->allow_nonref;
	$arrs = $json->decode($input);
#	print "old: $oldblocks, new: ". $arrs->{'blocks'}."\n";
	$secsperblock = (300/($arrs->{'blocks'}-$oldblocks));
	print "Seconds per block: $secsperblock\n";
	$oldblocks = $arrs->{'blocks'};
	sleep 300;
}