***YACoin Development Fund***

[Joe_Bauers]

Per request, I've added a BTC address for donations:   15qUzhfiMzweuVUyoc8rdX7G1sARSTz48A

[sairon]

Can anyone confirm whether fixing #1 issue also fixed #3 (slow with lots of transactions)?

I've got some ideas for issue #2, but this would need community consensus.

[sairon]

Per request, I've added a BTC address for donations:   15qUzhfiMzweuVUyoc8rdX7G1sARSTz48A

Nice, expecting payout soon!

[Joe_Bauers]

Can anyone confirm whether fixing #1 issue also fixed #3 (slow with lots of transactions)?

I was thinking the same thing. That would be a nice benefit of the fix for #1 

[Joe_Bauers]

Thanks to everyone for your donations so far!  Special thanks to St. Bit for your very generous donation!

[Thirtybird]

Can anyone confirm whether fixing #1 issue also fixed #3 (slow with lots of transactions)?

I've got some ideas for issue #2, but this would need community consensus.

tonight I'll try loading this version.  I have ~1050 transactions in my wallet.

[sairon]

Can anyone confirm whether fixing #1 issue also fixed #3 (slow with lots of transactions)?

I've got some ideas for issue #2, but this would need community consensus.

tonight I'll try loading this version.  I have ~1050 transactions in my wallet.

Cool, let us know how it goes!

[Thirtybird]

Bump.

A little reminder for the rich list people: your fantastic holding won't be worth much if the coin is seriously hampered by a dysfunctional wallet.  

We have a working prototype of a new wallet ready. Not sure if it's bug-free, though. However, works for me so far.
You can get the latest windows binaries here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwa2lymjl6igh6q/yacoin-cc-latest.zip

Still waiting for the major stakeholders to toss us some coins, though.

NOTE: you NEED to move/rename (backup) everything except wallet.dat and peers.dat in the yacoin data directory and then run yacoin with -loadblock=C:\blk0001.dat (assuming you put the blk0001.dat file in C:\). This is needed because we had to change the way blocks are indexed and now the wallet starts in LESS THAN 30 SECONDS (down from more than 30 minutes). However, this initial load will take somewhere around 2 hours (still faster than downloading it through the p2p network).

If you don't mind redownloading all the blocks, you can just remove the unneeded files and start yacoin normally (less hassle, but takes more time).

Most of the time at startup is now spend verifying the last couple of blocks (which needs to to recompute their hashes to ensure integrity). I've lowered this number from the default 2500 to 666 (rather arbitrarily chosen, but should absolutely be set higher than 520).

Fired off this process a few minutes ago - You might want to think about including some sort of notification or status to the end user to they know it's doing something and isn't just hung.  I know this isn't the typical-use scenario for the client, but the little details do matter  

Can anyone give me an example of the slowness I would be looking for?  startup time?  sending transactions?  general UI slowness?

[Joe_Bauers]

general UI slowness?

From what I have gathered from the posts of those that are having the issue, this seems to be the case - which is why I originally thought it may be a problem in the way Qt is handling things. Hopefully that is not the case and issue 1 and 3 were both fixed in one shot!  The best way to verify would be to test both yacoin-qt and yacoind for responsiveness.

[ilostcoins]

I tried the new QT wallet and it's much better. It takes less than a minute to start on a Core2Duo PC now. 

Previously, when I unlock the wallet for POS minting, it'd use a whole core all the time and the wallet would become very unresponsive. With this version, when doing POS, it spends less time occupying a whole core and the wallet is much more responsive. I have about 300 transactions in the wallet.

Good work, thanks. 

[Thirtybird]

general UI slowness?

From what I have gathered from the posts of those that are having the issue, this seems to be the case - which is why I originally thought it may be a problem in the way Qt is handling things. Hopefully that is not the case and issue 1 and 3 were both fixed in one shot!  The best way to verify would be to test both yacoin-qt and yacoind for responsiveness.

Well, I have 1,039 transaction in my wallet, and I have no UI slowdowns, but my UI was always pretty responsive - just the loading time delay.  Loaded on my laptop in 10-15 seconds.

yacoind is also working - it was a bit slow to tell me I needed to update my .conf file, but after I had that, the commands returned back in a timely fashion for me.  I don't typically use this, so don't have a baseline for the previous version.

[sairon]

I tried the new QT wallet and it's much better. It takes less than a minute to start on a Core2Duo PC now. 

Previously, when I unlock the wallet for POS minting, it'd use a whole core all the time and the wallet would become very unresponsive. With this version, when doing POS, it spends less time occupying a whole core and the wallet is much more responsive. I have about 300 transactions in the wallet.

Good work, thanks. 

Awesome! So we can also mark issue #3 as solved!

Should anybody feel generous, see my signature.

[Thirtybird]

I tried the new QT wallet and it's much better. It takes less than a minute to start on a Core2Duo PC now. 

Previously, when I unlock the wallet for POS minting, it'd use a whole core all the time and the wallet would become very unresponsive. With this version, when doing POS, it spends less time occupying a whole core and the wallet is much more responsive. I have about 300 transactions in the wallet.

Good work, thanks. 

Awesome! So we can also mark issue #3 as solved!

Should anybody feel generous, see my signature.

maybe when you post some binaries with the new logo I'll send some more

[Joe_Bauers]

I tried the new QT wallet and it's much better. It takes less than a minute to start on a Core2Duo PC now. 

Previously, when I unlock the wallet for POS minting, it'd use a whole core all the time and the wallet would become very unresponsive. With this version, when doing POS, it spends less time occupying a whole core and the wallet is much more responsive. I have about 300 transactions in the wallet.

Good work, thanks. 

Awesome! So we can also mark issue #3 as solved!

Should anybody feel generous, see my signature.

maybe when you post some binaries with the new logo I'll send some more

sairon, if you want to compile them, everything is merged to https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/tree/testing
I also plan to release binaries for the official release of 0.4.1, but if everyone would like them for testing, I can do that as well if sairon doesn't have time.   The main question is do we want to move to 0.4.1 before issue 2 is fixed, as that may take some time. 

[sairon]

I tried the new QT wallet and it's much better. It takes less than a minute to start on a Core2Duo PC now.  

Previously, when I unlock the wallet for POS minting, it'd use a whole core all the time and the wallet would become very unresponsive. With this version, when doing POS, it spends less time occupying a whole core and the wallet is much more responsive. I have about 300 transactions in the wallet.

Good work, thanks.  

Awesome! So we can also mark issue #3 as solved!

Should anybody feel generous, see my signature.

maybe when you post some binaries with the new logo I'll send some more

sairon, if you want to compile them, everything is merged to https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/tree/testing
I also plan to release binaries for the official release of 0.4.1, but if everyone would like them for testing, I can do that as well if sairon doesn't have time.   The main question is do we want to move to 0.4.1 before issue 2 is fixed, as that may take some time.  

@Thirtybird: I'll see what I can do.

@Joe_Bauers: Fix for #2 will require some grace period anyway (I was thinking Feb 1 2014 as a time to switch if we can implement it by the end of December), so it shouldn't be an issue.

EDIT: BTW, you're missing 48px version of YAC icon and also the OSX icon bundle contains Novacoin logos

EDIT2: OK, 48px icon is not missing, just need to copy yacoin.png to yacoin-48.png as it's the same size. Compiled successfully, will be up on github any second.

[sairon]

So, here goes...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pwa2lymjl6igh6q/yacoin-cc-latest.zip

Known issues: mac os x has old icons

Also, kinda sucks that I had to "make clean" for Qt to notice the changed icons... Could've been done in a minute if I didn't have to rebuild from scratch.

[Thirtybird]

ooo, shiny

200 more YAC incoming - seems all my mined YAC are going to developers these days

[sairon]

ooo, shiny

200 more YAC incoming - seems all my mined YAC are going to developers these days

Maybe we should rename it to Devcoin... oh w8.
Thanks for the coins!

[evershawn]

Anyone catch this PSA for YAK? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sjopn/psa_yacoin_wallet_contains_virus_they_already/

[sairon]

Anyone catch this PSA for YAK? http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1sjopn/psa_yacoin_wallet_contains_virus_they_already/

Ooops, sorry, forgot to mention I put a trojan into your trojan so you can get robbed of BTC while you're getting robbed of YAC... jk

Just a FUD and pointing to a MONTHS old thread.