[ANN] [PSA] Yacoin is the FIRST scrypt-N, scrypt-jane, adaptive-scrypt coin.

[Joe_Bauers]

I've seen a few threads on here introducing "new", "innovative" or otherwise "awesome" coins that all attempt to take credit for
inventing scrypt-N, scrypt-jane, adaptive-scrypt, etc...

Actually, Yacoin was the first to introduce scrypt-N to the cryptocoin world in May of 2013. Scrypt-jane was invented by a github user named floodyberry
as a flexible implementation of Colin Percival's scrypt.

Using floodyberry's scrypt-jane lib, Yacoin was also the first coin to use SHA-3. In this case, as a hashing function.

In addition, Yacoin was the third proof of stake coin released after Peercoin and Novacoin. Yacoin, at a current N-Factor of 15 is the first to chart such territory and is certainly ASIC proof. Obviously, many of you are here to make a quick "buck" and don't care about such things, and to that end... good luck to you I suppose.  Still, I want to set the record straight.

Thanks. This has been a public service announcement from your local friendly neighbourhood Yacoin dev.

Excelsior! - LLAP -  \||/ - NFCT     

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[bathrobehero]

I think Yacoin was the first coin I ever mined. 

[TheCoinFinder]

I've seen a few threads on here introducing "new", "innovative" or otherwise "awesome" coins that all attempt to take credit for
inventing scrypt-N, scrypt-jane, adaptive-scrypt, etc...

Actually, Yacoin was the first to introduce scrypt-N to the cryptocoin world in May of 2013. Scrypt-jane was invented by a github user named floodyberry
as a flexible implementation of Colin Percival's scrypt.

Using floodyberry's scrypt-jane lib, Yacoin was also the first coin to use SHA-3. In this case, as a hashing function.

In addition, Yacoin was the third proof of stake coin released after Peercoin and Novacoin. Yacoin, at a current N-Factor of 15 is the first to chart such territory and is certainly ASIC proof. Obviously, many of you are here to make a quick "buck" and don't care about such things, and to that end... good luck to you I suppose.  Still, I want to set the record straight.

Thanks. This has been a public service announcement from your local friendly neighbourhood Yacoin dev.

Excelsior! - LLAP -  \||/ - NFCT     

Yes.. it did all those things.. It didn't really specialise in those things.

Its like saying Tenebrix was before Litecoin...

[Hobocc]

yacoin is outdated

[Joe_Bauers]

Yes.. it did all those things.. It didn't really specialise in those things.

Its like saying Tenebrix was before Litecoin...

Specialize in implementing scrypt-N and SHA-3? I'm not sure I understand the point you're attempting to make.

Check our commit history on github over the past 6 months alone if you don't think we're actively progressing.

[Joe_Bauers]

yacoin is outdated

By your logic, so is Bitcoin

[TheCoinFinder]

Yes.. it did all those things.. It didn't really specialise in those things.

Its like saying Tenebrix was before Litecoin...

Specialize in implementing scrypt-N and SHA-3? I'm not sure I understand the point you're attempting to make.

Check our commit history on github over the past 6 months alone if you don't think we're actively progressing.

What I mean is that sure it had them in, of sorts (though the n-factor scheduling for yacoin makes it pretty hard to mine with GPUs) - and its more of an scrypt-jane style coin. But ultimately, Yacoin hasn't really taken off anywhere that I know of.

[Joe_Bauers]

Yes.. it did all those things.. It didn't really specialise in those things.

Its like saying Tenebrix was before Litecoin...

Specialize in implementing scrypt-N and SHA-3? I'm not sure I understand the point you're attempting to make.

Check our commit history on github over the past 6 months alone if you don't think we're actively progressing.

What I mean is that sure it had them in, of sorts (though the n-factor scheduling for yacoin makes it pretty hard to mine with GPUs) - and its more of an scrypt-jane style coin. But ultimately, Yacoin hasn't really taken off anywhere that I know of.

The purpose of the N-Factor schedule was INTENDED to make it hard to GPU mine. GPU mining Yacoin is an art. YAC is ultimately a CPU coin though.

Scrypt-jane, Scrypt-N and adaptive scrypt are the same thing!

Yacoin certainly hasn't yet taken off though for sure.