[ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development

[procrypto]

I'm sure someone has an SVG version of it. I just uploaded the biggest PNG I found.

Cool, it would be good to get hold of that and make it widely available.

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[ilostcoins]

I'm sure someone has an SVG version of it. I just uploaded the biggest PNG I found.

Thankfully, you're going to use the official logo.   Files for the logo are here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pb256r5w3e10hh8/YACoin.svg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/18lbvjz10y2z9cu/PNG_LOGO%2BTEXT.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ftg9ov4ycnanlt/PNG_COIN_LOGO_256.png

I think it's a good time to start being more consistent with each other. I noticed a lot more new people are coming to this forum to look at different cryptocurrencies recently. I wouldn't want to confuse them.

[sairon]

I think it's a good time to start being more consistent with each other. I noticed a lot more new people are coming to this forum to look at different cryptocurrencies recently. I wouldn't want to confuse them.

Yup, that's my motivation, too.

[aso118]

On a side note, to all of the exciting software updates, it looks like someone put together a nice YACoin wikipedia page.  As of last week we still didn't have one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacoin

It a good overview;  I'll try to add more detail to it this afternoon.  I thought I would share with it with the rest of you in case if anyone else wanted to add anything. 

[Joe_Bauers]

On a side note, to all of the exciting software updates, it looks like someone put together a nice YACoin wikipedia page.  As of last week we still didn't have one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacoin

It a good overview;  I'll try to add more detail to it this afternoon.  I thought I would share with it with the rest of you in case if anyone else wanted to add anything. 

Awesome!  That's one if the things I was going to get done with the promotion fund, so if anyone can take credit for this, I will send you some YAC's.   

[St.Bit]

On a side note, to all of the exciting software updates, it looks like someone put together a nice YACoin wikipedia page.  As of last week we still didn't have one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacoin

It a good overview;  I'll try to add more detail to it this afternoon.  I thought I would share with it with the rest of you in case if anyone else wanted to add anything. 

Awesome!  That's one if the things I was going to get done with the promotion fund, so if anyone can take credit for this, I will send you some YAC's.   

As I said on yacointalk, without media coverage and some "references"* this is wasted effords.
Untill we haven't a few articles on mainstream media we have better things to focus on. If someone really wants to write a wikipedia article go to yacoinwiki.tk

*by their standard hard to reach

[Joe_Bauers]

On a side note, to all of the exciting software updates, it looks like someone put together a nice YACoin wikipedia page.  As of last week we still didn't have one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacoin

It a good overview;  I'll try to add more detail to it this afternoon.  I thought I would share with it with the rest of you in case if anyone else wanted to add anything.  

Awesome!  That's one if the things I was going to get done with the promotion fund, so if anyone can take credit for this, I will send you some YAC's.  

As I said on yacointalk, without media coverage and some "references"* this is wasted effords.
Untill we haven't a few articles on mainstream media we have better things to focus on. If someone really wants to write a wikipedia article go to yacoinwiki.tk

*by their standard hard to reach

Agreed, we definitely need to get a mainstream media presence, but social media is just as (more?) important. As far as I know, YAC still doesn't have a Facebook page       If we get the word out about YAC to enough of the masses, mainstream media will at best not matter; at worst, approach us.  Word of mouth will always trump spoon fed.   To that end, the best grassroots approach I've seen so far is from indiamikezulu over at yacointalk, and if he has his way, YAC might eventually replace the AUD    

[Dehumanizer]

Since we now have a new version of wallet (thanks to developers) which fixes the major problem of extremely long startup time, I think you should upload this version to the official yacoin github... What do you think?

[Joe_Bauers]

Since we now have a new version of wallet (thanks to developers) which fixes the major problem of extremely long startup time, I think you should upload this version to the official yacoin github... What do you think?

A link to sairon's build is here - https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases but if you mean adding the file as an attachment that can be downloaded directly from github, I can add that if it's helpful. 

[zzz111]

Win32/Trojan.1be Found in minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip

Cracked it!!!  

I was able to use the stratum version of CPU miner from pooler, and found the optimizations in the scrypt-jane library that mikaelh made, and I fixed the bug that prevented shares from being found and was able to compile them all into a series of x64 binaries for Windows.

These binaries should be as fast as the ones that you've been using, and also support stratum.  I kept the "scrypt-jane" command line option - apparently changing it to "yacoin" just confused people (even though it's, well, wrong).

Please, post any feedback or any problems.  PM me as an option - I've got some free time tonight and tomorrow morning (EST) to work on this.

minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip - https://mega.co.nz/#!mwZTnTJD!M6V3Vnmj2Kxz1fhDP8K2LUFXjrtjM-OIcAoJS0S5afw

Source is available as well: http://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer

[bandjhughes]

A link to sairon's build is here - https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases but if you mean adding the file as an attachment that can be downloaded directly from github, I can add that if it's helpful. 

Hi, I haven't tried compiling the code yet, but I did try to run the binary.  Unfortunately running the binary resulted in an "Error loading blkindex.dat"   

[Beave162]

Win32/Trojan.1be Found in minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip

Cracked it!!!  

I was able to use the stratum version of CPU miner from pooler, and found the optimizations in the scrypt-jane library that mikaelh made, and I fixed the bug that prevented shares from being found and was able to compile them all into a series of x64 binaries for Windows.

These binaries should be as fast as the ones that you've been using, and also support stratum.  I kept the "scrypt-jane" command line option - apparently changing it to "yacoin" just confused people (even though it's, well, wrong).

Please, post any feedback or any problems.  PM me as an option - I've got some free time tonight and tomorrow morning (EST) to work on this.

minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip - https://mega.co.nz/#!mwZTnTJD!M6V3Vnmj2Kxz1fhDP8K2LUFXjrtjM-OIcAoJS0S5afw

Source is available as well: http://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer

What is this?!?!

[Dehumanizer]

Since we now have a new version of wallet (thanks to developers) which fixes the major problem of extremely long startup time, I think you should upload this version to the official yacoin github... What do you think?

A link to sairon's build is here - https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases but if you mean adding the file as an attachment that can be downloaded directly from github, I can add that if it's helpful. 

I was thinking more about www.yacoin.org , but I don't know if it's even under your control as I am thinking about it now. If it's not, do we know who does have an access to it?
As it is now, the information lying around is quite inconsistent, www.yacoin.org linking to old versions and if someone is new to yacoin, they have to browse various forums and topics to get the relevant information and even then it's quite difficult to digest it properly.

[Dehumanizer]

Win32/Trojan.1be Found in minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip

Cracked it!!!  

I was able to use the stratum version of CPU miner from pooler, and found the optimizations in the scrypt-jane library that mikaelh made, and I fixed the bug that prevented shares from being found and was able to compile them all into a series of x64 binaries for Windows.

These binaries should be as fast as the ones that you've been using, and also support stratum.  I kept the "scrypt-jane" command line option - apparently changing it to "yacoin" just confused people (even though it's, well, wrong).

Please, post any feedback or any problems.  PM me as an option - I've got some free time tonight and tomorrow morning (EST) to work on this.

minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip - https://mega.co.nz/#!mwZTnTJD!M6V3Vnmj2Kxz1fhDP8K2LUFXjrtjM-OIcAoJS0S5afw

Source is available as well: http://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer

What is this?!?!

Some antiviruses detect coin mining software as trojans, how stupid is that?
I neither have or use Windows, but just for the sake of finding out what's going on I downloaded the zip file with windows binary from the link above and uploaded it at Metascan, which is an online antivirus scanner scanning the file with multiple antiviruses and 7 scanners marked the file as "Bitcoinminer trojan" or something similar... So nothing to worry about IMHO, as we know that's it's a miner software and that's what we expect :-)

If anyone wants to try it, here's the link to metascan: https://www.metascan-online.com/en
Just drop the zip file and press the scan button.

[bitdwarf]

Meh, I think someone is orchestrating another FUD campaign. It's all fun and giggles until financial regulations get people in jail.

[Dehumanizer]

Well, I can see how someone gets scared if he downloads the miner and his virus scanner alerts him about a trojan... Unfortunatelly some antivirus companies think there's no regular use to miners other than creating trojans with it.

[sairon]

A link to sairon's build is here - https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases but if you mean adding the file as an attachment that can be downloaded directly from github, I can add that if it's helpful. 

Hi, I haven't tried compiling the code yet, but I did try to run the binary.  Unfortunately running the binary resulted in an "Error loading blkindex.dat"   

Yeah, the old blkindex.dat format is incompatible with this wallet version. You can delete it and run yacoin with '-reindex', should fix it. If not, try the loadblocks method - see the info here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276948.0

[Thirtybird]

Win32/Trojan.1be Found in minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip

Cracked it!!!  

I was able to use the stratum version of CPU miner from pooler, and found the optimizations in the scrypt-jane library that mikaelh made, and I fixed the bug that prevented shares from being found and was able to compile them all into a series of x64 binaries for Windows.

These binaries should be as fast as the ones that you've been using, and also support stratum.  I kept the "scrypt-jane" command line option - apparently changing it to "yacoin" just confused people (even though it's, well, wrong).

Please, post any feedback or any problems.  PM me as an option - I've got some free time tonight and tomorrow morning (EST) to work on this.

minerd-yacoin_stratum_x64.zip - https://mega.co.nz/#!mwZTnTJD!M6V3Vnmj2Kxz1fhDP8K2LUFXjrtjM-OIcAoJS0S5afw

Source is available as well: http://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer

yep, every miner compiled with MinGW I have seen throws the same warning (depending on software).  Please compile from source if you are concerned - it's why it is also published.

[unvoid]

Why YAC isn't listed at coinchoose.com or coinwarz.com ?

[bitdwarf]

Because they never figured out how to calculate profitability for YaCoin due to the special algorithms it uses.