[ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development

[procrypto]

some statistics from Abe:


EDIT: it's now online at http://yacexplorer.tk/

Nice work. I did try last week but hit a few stumbling blocks, intended to come back to it, so would really appreciate seeing your code to find out what I hadn't managed to figure out.

[eule]

guess it's dying already

Huh? I think the hashrate got so low due to the n factor rising.
Finally a blockexplorer, neat!

[procrypto]

http://yacexplorer.tk/address/YBJeQQFCipbC4LrZTnTu6j5rSAMsqRkGJb has a pretty healthy balance.  

Balance: 441131 YAC
Transactions in: 13
Received: 441151 YAC
Transactions out: 1
Sent: 20 YAC

[bitdwarf]

Mmh, could that be the YACs deposited on Bter?

[GSnak]

They might have more than 13.

[bitdwarf]

It could be the cold wallet, not the one they use for occasional withdrawals.

[sairon]

Huh? I think the hashrate got so low due to the n factor rising.

Well, the network hashrate fell from 1.2x10^9 to 3x10^8 (to 25%).
My miner is now at 57% of the hashrate I had at diff <1.
So I think that the rest was just pump&dump mining.

[wetroof]

we already created 3 million coins? And the limit set is 2 billion. how does the block reward work for yacoin. I assume its the same as novacoin which I don't anything about.

[sairon]

Mmh, could that be the YACs deposited on Bter?

Well, I'd like to believe it, however, it looks like it's some miner. If you trace the coins to their generation transactions, you'll see it's very unlikely that this address belongs to an exchange (could be a distributed solo-mining gpu/cpu farm or something IMHO).

EDIT: I might try to modify blockparser and build a closure of this address from the blockchain.

[WindMaster]

I just managed to get Abe (a block explorer) to work with Yacoin. Dunno if everything works as it should, but so far it looks good. I'll try to polish it and then set it up on amazon cloud or something and publish the source.

Excellent work, this was badly needed.  Well done!

[procrypto]

Mmh, could that be the YACs deposited on Bter?

Well, I'd like to believe it, however, it looks like it's some miner. If you trace the coins to their generation transactions, you'll see it's very unlikely that this address belongs to an exchange (could be a distributed solo-mining gpu/cpu farm or something IMHO).

Exactly.. this was how I found the address, but in reverse - seeing where the first handful of generated coins ended up.

[cycloid]

Very happy to see this work on YAC .

Silly question:
 If I switch to unofficial client does this mean new fork and my coins on it will eventually not be "legit" on original fork?

[seleme]

Very happy to see this work on YAC .

Silly question:
 If I switch to unofficial client does this mean new fork and my coins on it will eventually not be "legit" on original fork?

They'll be good 

[sairon]

Very happy to see this work on YAC .

Silly question:
 If I switch to unofficial client does this mean new fork and my coins on it will eventually not be "legit" on original fork?

no forking. the client is unoffical because it isn't the original, but it still works the same way, on the same chain.

[WindMaster]

Very happy to see this work on YAC .

Silly question:
 If I switch to unofficial client does this mean new fork and my coins on it will eventually not be "legit" on original fork?

Looks like a couple other people already answered the general question.  I think the term fork confuses people, and a lot of people immediately think hard fork of the blockchain.  Nope, in this case, fork is just GitHub's term for taking a copy of someone else's project (in this case, pocopoco's original YACoin client) and continuing to work on and develop it independently of the original author.  We're not changing anything with the blockchain.

[SpaceJunk]

Oi, one quick question. To translate the client is it enough to create i.e. bitcoin_es.ts with the language attribute set to "es" and then the contents of the translation tags translated? I've done gettext translations before, but not this system. Recompiling my fork with a half translated locale in src/qt/locale didn't make the language option to appear in the client Settings.

[cycloid]

Awesome thanks .

 Now how do I go about compiling it in win?

[yantis]

I just unloaded my last approximately 80k on BTER at around .00050 which are the two big volume spikes you see http://bter.com/trade/yac_btc to explain my reasoning for this:

- The original developer no longer supports it.
- Even though Windmaster is maintaining it. Its really not in his best interest. He would most likely do far better of with his FPGA code on a YAC clone or releasing his own coin.
- There are no Windows binaries out there of the current fork.
- The original version has the checkpoint message which scares a lot of people away.
- If the coin wasn't on BTER I don't think there would be any real trades for it. I don't see a way to spend it otherwise.
- The general trend these last couple weeks are people are just cloning coins and releasing them with minimal changes. The odds are high that a YAC clone will be released with more features than this one.
- The total hash rate is on a constant decline.
- Keep in mind most people are looking for the next big jump like another Litecoin if they don't see support on a coin they just move on.

I think a coin like this has some high hopes I just don't think this coin is going to be it. If you guys want it to be it then you will want to address some of the issues posted above. One of the first things you should do is get some compiled binaires up there. Particularly Windows ones since one of the allures of YAC is to be able to just run this on any machine that currently isn't doing anything.

I do appreciate all the work a lot of you guys put into it. Especially Windmaster. Thank you for giving it your best shot.

[seleme]

You never did anything for YAC except mining it with shitload of AWS-es (I guess it was them with a level of hashrate you had on dontmineme at times), when it was most profitable to do it and kept quiet collecting thousands of them when some of us were fighting against malicious fud here in it's worst hours, so good to see you departing from it but not really complaining as you did what you always planned to, you're just a bit disappointed someone didn't do more job for you to dump them at higher price, probably recently at 00064 as I see that big sell wall lost lot of his powe now . I hope it was you as it would mean you stopped the rise 2 days ago on your own just to sell it 20% cheaper, would be epic.

At just below 0005 they are in better hands now. I'm glad to see some at times big miners like you and fenican or few more that didn't felt it's necessary (and rightly so) to inform us about their trading activities and post-dump thoughts are out and the price is still in it's usual margins. That was always going to happen and market so far dealt with it pretty well.

[KrLos]

any windows client? or a guide for compile it? i'm having issues with the original client, can't download the blockchain.