- The original developer no longer supports it.
YaCoin has now more developers looking at it than it had at the start. And in so far the code seems to have performed as intended, nothing fundamental needed to be changed in the wooping 11 days since pocopoco's last commit.
- 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.
Or he could end mutually anihilating both the clone and the original. Only a gambler risks a good position for a possibly better position.
- There are no Windows binaries out there of the current fork.
You only needed to ask nicely (or maybe pay a bounty, mmh?).
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206577.msg2207446#msg2207446- The original version has the checkpoint message which scares a lot of people away.
Or not. I don't think granma is using YaCoins yet.
- 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 coin is 22 days old. It's a bit early for it to replace the dollar, end hunger, bring world peace, walk the dog and do my laundry.
- 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.
"Minimal changes" and "more features" is a contradiction. There's still no "minimal changes" clone, even less a clone with "more features".
- The total hash rate is on a constant decline.
Or not. The stable rate can be expected to be lower than the post launch spike.
- 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.
YaCoin still isn't competing for resources with new GPU coins.
I think a coin like this has some high hopes I just don't think this coin is going to be it.
I guess it would suck if it was "it" after dumping 80k of them.