[ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development

[erpbridge]

General question: I have an i5 2550k, and an i7 3770. Both are profitable per calculators mining most of the gpu minable coins. I usually let them just run cpuminer, and mine on an LTC pool all the time, racking up a little here and there.

Being Yacoin is optomized for CPU mining and NO GPU mining, would I be better off mining a GPU coin with these CPUs... or is Yacoin more profitable all things being equal for these CPUs? There just aren't any calculators that would answer this one way or another.

[Thirtybird]

General question: I have an i5 2550k, and an i7 3770. Both are profitable per calculators mining most of the gpu minable coins. I usually let them just run cpuminer, and mine on an LTC pool all the time, racking up a little here and there.

Being Yacoin is optomized for CPU mining and NO GPU mining, would I be better off mining a GPU coin with these CPUs... or is Yacoin more profitable all things being equal for these CPUs? There just aren't any calculators that would answer this one way or another.

Taking into account these numbers:
Currently, for my i5 2500k, the hashrate for LTC is double what it is for YAC

To compare their values to BTC, I did the following:
The current difficulty for LTC is 604.6 (as taken from allchains.info) and the current highest bid price on bter.com is .02397
The current difficulty for YAC is 0.851425 (as taken from the YAC wallet) and the current highest bid price on bter.com is .000382

The LTC difficulty is 710 time higher than YAC's.
The LTC value is 62.75 times higher than YAC's.
The hashrate for LTC is 2 times highen than YAC's
This tells me that YAC should make you 5.5x (710 / 62.75 / 2) more than mining LTC on those CPU's

(Doing it based on network hashrate may be more accurate, so I've included both)
The current network hashrate for LTC is 17,633 MH/sec (as taken from my LTC pool) and the current highest bid price on bter.com is .02397
The current mean network hashrate for YAC is 44 MH/sec(as taken from http://yacexplorer.tk/graphs.htm) and the current highest bid price on bter.com is .000382

The LTC hashrate is 400 time higher than YAC's.
The LTC value is 62.75 times higher than YAC's.
The hashrate for LTC is 2 times highen than YAC's
This tells me that YAC should make you 3.2x (400 / 62.75 / 2) more than mining LTC on those CPU's

I may have really simplified this or my logic may be really wrong, but I couldn't think of any other way to estimate this other than running two identical machines mining different coins for a period of time, and then sell the results and compare...  Ain't nobody got time for that!

EDIT: apparently, hashrate for YAC is half of what it is for LTC for my machine - updated values above
EDIT2: added calcs based on network hash rate

[wesleyrbk]

Did you add the N value in your calculations?

[Thirtybird]

Did you add the N value in your calculations?

N is irrelevant as everyone is using the same value for N - earnings do not go down when N goes up.
 

[Joe_Bauers]

Looks like he wanted to save space and removed SHA512, Blake and Skein. Why Salsa64 was removed if Salsa is needed is beyond me.

I see what happened now - if you run clean project in QT Creator, it removes those files.

[sunnyl]

I compiled a version of win64 from windmaster's git branch, if you have 64-bit windows installed, you can try it.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hnindev/files/yacoin-qt-0.4.0.0-g32a928e-winx64.zip

Hi Peers, I have built a new winx64 binary based on the latest GIT repo and turned on the SSE & AVX optimizations by adding this option -DCPU_X86_FORCE_INTRINSICS.

The complete options for gcc is:

DEFINES       = -DUNICODE -D__INSURE__ -DQT_GUI -DBOOST_INTERPROCESS_HAS_WINDOWS_KERNEL_BOOTTIME -DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_LIB -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DBOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS -DCPU_X86_FORCE_INTRINSICS -DSCRYPT_CHACHA -DSCRYPT_KECCAK512 -DUSE_UPNP=1 -DSTATICLIB -DUSE_IPV6=1 -DWIN32 -D_MT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_NEEDS_QMAIN

Try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hnindev/files/yacoin-qt-0.4.0.0-g2nd-winx64.zip

For viruses or malwae precaution, please scan it by yourself. 

Used, Working well.

[smilez]

We need a place where people can buy and sell real items for yacoins

Stuff like steam accounts, games & whatnot.

[hanzac]

We need a place where people can buy and sell real items for yacoins

Stuff like steam accounts, games & whatnot.

Currently, I think you can go to marketplace of yacointalk.com/.

[nonameo]

We need a place where people can buy and sell real items for yacoins

Stuff like steam accounts, games & whatnot.

shameless plug for my marketplace thread its not perfect/ideal and it's not exclusively for yacoins but, at least its something. hopefully if there's enough traffic then everyone will benefit

[turtles]

couple questions . .

Is yacoin still a secret Linux wizard club?

do the windows binaries at yacoin.org work or is that bs? if bs is someone working on a windows build?
if not, will a Linux VM work for mining? all hardware I have access to requires windows

have you considered changing the name of this coin to CSWCMWLNHRFAWCoin confusingsowecanminewithlownetworkhashrateforawhilecoin?

since this is cpu mined only I feel like ALOT more people would get involved long term if it were easier, I know I would.

[Boing7898]

couple questions . .

Is yacoin still a secret Linux wizard club?

do the windows binaries at yacoin.org work or is that bs? if bs is someone working on a windows build?
if not, will a Linux VM work for mining? all hardware I have access to requires windows

have you considered changing the name of this coin to CSWCMWLNHRFAWCoin confusingsowecanminewithlownetworkhashrateforawhilecoin?

since this is cpu mined only I feel like ALOT more people would get involved long term if it were easier, I know I would.

There are windows binaries for both the miner and the client, and YACoin isn't confusing at all.

[Thirtybird]

couple questions . .

Is yacoin still a secret Linux wizard club?

do the windows binaries at yacoin.org work or is that bs? if bs is someone working on a windows build?
if not, will a Linux VM work for mining? all hardware I have access to requires windows

have you considered changing the name of this coin to CSWCMWLNHRFAWCoin confusingsowecanminewithlownetworkhashrateforawhilecoin?

since this is cpu mined only I feel like ALOT more people would get involved long term if it were easier, I know I would.

unfortunately it appears the guy who set up yacoin.org disappeared and isn't really updating his site.

Here are some links to the posts with the windows executables I am recommending:

Windows CPU Miner : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201027.0
Windows 64 binary (compiled by hanzac): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206577.msg2356931#msg2356931

[turtles]

couple questions . .

Is yacoin still a secret Linux wizard club?

do the windows binaries at yacoin.org work or is that bs? if bs is someone working on a windows build?
if not, will a Linux VM work for mining? all hardware I have access to requires windows

have you considered changing the name of this coin to CSWCMWLNHRFAWCoin confusingsowecanminewithlownetworkhashrateforawhilecoin?

since this is cpu mined only I feel like ALOT more people would get involved long term if it were easier, I know I would.

unfortunately it appears the guy who set up yacoin.org disappeared and isn't really updating his site.

Here are some links to the posts with the windows executables I am recommending:

Windows CPU Miner : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201027.0
Windows 64 binary (compiled by hanzac): https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206577.msg2356931#msg2356931

Thank you kind sir, don't know why I couldn't find either of those threads

[forsetifox]

Looks like the network hashrate is steady at 40Mhash. Anyone happen to know when the POS blocks are due to pop up in the wallets?

[sairon]

Looks like the network hashrate is steady at 40Mhash. Anyone happen to know when the POS blocks are due to pop up in the wallets?

soon™

[liteuser]

Looks like the network hashrate is steady at 40Mhash. Anyone happen to know when the POS blocks are due to pop up in the wallets?

soon™

First POS today:

http://yacexplorer.tk/block/683ae9d8b201e2ffd9c0b509f7ef053d07fe49e61dbbc7b5931bc5c28d2131a7

[smilez]

What exactly is this PoS ?

[sairon]

What exactly is this PoS ?

Proof of Stake, basically you get a small percentage as a bonus to the coins you're already holding for more than 30 days.

some more info:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=187714.0
http://www.ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf

[digger]

have some body have already got Proof of Stake?

[sairon]

have some body have already got Proof of Stake?

yes, for example:
http://yacexplorer.tk/block/683ae9d8b201e2ffd9c0b509f7ef053d07fe49e61dbbc7b5931bc5c28d2131a7

address Y2e1VP9ZpwYCbVMk7RRhGDLwRKyuQwjzGQ staked 357.59 YAC and got 1.45 YAC as interest after 30 days of holding.