YACoin Info And Communication Thread For Newbies YAC the CPU/GPU Mined coin

Put your cpus' to work while you mine Bitcoin
Hi i just wanted to start a thread in the newbie section for all the new commers to
YACoin or people who are lurkers who wanted to ask any questions about
YACoin all the "How to" and "What If" that dont have a full access account yet

Im not a very good typer, speller or punctuator (is that even a word) but i will endeavour to keep this thread up to date with the latest software/links to
regarding YACoin how to start mining ect ect, and when i get out of newbie jail i will tell the other YAC enthusiest about it and they can also help
keep the thread alive

YACoin is currently on http://bter.com/trade/yac_btc trading and has been very stable

So lets get started, the main development thread where Windmaster our newly self appointed lightening rod lives
you can find mostly everything and everyone here like the new client updates ect ect

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206577.0

http://yacointalk.com/
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Windamasters git repository

https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin

YACoin Think Tank

http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,273.0.html

Newest YACoin wallet

Newest Windows client
http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,294.msg1114.html#msg1114

Dependancys for Ububtu
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libboost-all-dev git
For Debian (stable)
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev libboost-all-dev git
Download the source from Windmasters repos
git clone https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin
Change directory now to get started
cd yacoin/src
Change the -j4 to however many cores you have
make -j4 -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=
Copy yacoind into /usr/bin
sudo cp yacoind /usr/bin/yacoind
With that installed now we have to make a config file
mkdir ~/.yacoin
If you dont have nano get it by typing
sudo apt-get install nano
Now to edit the conf file
sudo nano ~/.yacoin/yacoin.conf
Enter the following and when your're done press Ctrl X to save
server=1
daemon=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=HardToGuessUsername
rpcpassword=HardToGuessPassword
You can start the deamon by just typing yacoind in terminal
give it some time to download the entire blockchain before you expect correct and current info
by typing yacoind getinfo, yacoind getmininginfo or ./yacoind help to see other commands to get your address or balence ect ect
or you can use the gui interface by typing yacoin

Here is the main YACoin p2pool thread with the software to also run your own node or just mine from others

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202920.0

Mining software

Experimental GPU Miner

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232241.0 <<<Tested and works visit here aswell to see how to best configure your card http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,274.msg1011.html#msg1011

CPU Miner

http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,264.0.html <<<Ive tested this and its a huge increase on the unfinished work here>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=201027.0
extract the folder then make a new text doc in the folder and type

minerd-avx.exe -a scrypt-jane -o http://84.200.240.198:8336/ -u YNyJ9qp6eSQmjra5gDFreoKMLtvNPrMMmJ -t 8 -q

editing your own address and prefered p2pool or mining pool just edit after the url and make -u YourMiningPoolUsername -p YourMiningPoolPaasword and edit -t to however many cores you want o use

now save as and give it a name followed by .bat (yacminer.bat) then choose all files in the drop down menu at the bottom then save and run that bat file to start your miner

Linux software

https://github.com/ali1234/cpuminer

Building in linux

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev automake make
Then download and build the miner:

git clone https://github.com/ali1234/cpuminer
cd cpuminer
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
sudo make

This should be enough and more or less easy..
Now you're ready to mine YACs. You can run the miner in backgroud with nohup (below is a sample for first YAC pools):

nohup ./minerd -a scrypt-jane -o http://YOURMININGPOOLADDRESS -u user -p password -t 4 -r 9999 2>&1 &

or for a P2pool which is more recommended as its usually free and you get a payout each block solved
nohup ./minerd -o http://84.200.240.198:8336 -u YNyJ9qp6eSQmjra5gDFreoKMLtvNPrMMmJ<<<<be sure to change this to your own addy. -a scrypt-jane -t8 -q -r 9999 2>&1 &

and remember to change the cores it uses by editing the -t option to the amount of cores you want to use ( -t8 for 8 cores -t6 for 6 cores)

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