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[ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development

May 15, 2013, 11:04:10 PM
Last edit: May 31, 2016, 07:41:06 PM by WindMaster

Your Alternative Currency

http://www.yacoin.org/

Specifications
No premine
Proof of Work: Scrypt-N SHA-3
Proof of Stake: 0.05 YAC rewarded per coin*year after 30 days
Stake mining: 30 day wait, enabled with checkbox from wallet
Block time: 60 seconds
Block reward: MIN(100, diff ^ 1/6) or variable 0 to 100 based on difficulty
Total coin supply:
Difficulty adjusts every block
Configuration file: yacoin.conf

How it works
YACoin is the original creator of Scrypt-N Proof of Work. YACoin chose a PoW algoritm SHA-3 KECCAK to further distance itself from other coin creation schemes. YACoin uses Proof of Stake to secure itself from pure PoW attacks.

Proof of Stake is an improved version from Peercoin's implementation. YACoin counts PoS blocks with equal weight as PoW blocks.

Downloads

Github source
http://github.com/yacoin/yacoin

0.4.3 fixes the Heartbleed bug

Windows wallet
0.4.3 Yacoin 0.4.3.zip
sha1sum = 91ee8d1d140169c0af604c9649b977da890f644d

Ubuntu PPA
ppa:yacoin/yacoin
https://launchpad.net/~yacoin/+archive/yacoin

Mining instructions

Example yacoin.conf file:

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rpcuser=my_user_name
rpcpassword=my_pasword
server=1
gen=1
genproclimit=-1

or type from the debug console:

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setgenerate true -1

Standalone miners

GPU Miner
https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/releases

Example settings:
yacminer --scrypt-chacha --worksize 256 -g 1 --lookup-gap 2 --buffer-size 1700 -R 1280 -o stratum+tcp://<pool address>:<port> -u <username> -p <password>

CPU Miner
https://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer/releases

Pools
http://yac.erlog.pt/
https://www2.coinmine.pl/yac/

Block explorers
http://explorer.yacoin.org
http://explore.grokonet.com/
https://coinplorer.com/YAC

Paper wallets
http://yaddress.yacoin.org

Exchanges
Alcurex - Alcurex https://alcurex.org/index.php/crypto/market?pair=yac_btc
Bter - http://bter.com/trade/yac_btc
Crypto-Trade - https://www.crypto-trade.com/currencies/trade/yac_btc and https://www.crypto-trade.com/currencies/trade/yac_usd
YoBit - https://yobit.net/en/trade/YAC/BTC

Faucet
http://faucet.yacoin.org

Links & Social
Home page - http://yacoin.org
Forum - http://forum.yacoin.org
Alternate Forum - http://yacointalk.grokonet.com
IRC - Channel #yacoin on freenode - http://webchat.freenode.net/
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/yacoin
Twitter - https://twitter.com/YACoinJoe
Charts - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/#jump-yac-btc
CoinMarketCap - http://coinmarketcap.com/yac_7.html
NFactor Countdown - http://download.muuttuja.org/yacoin/countdown/
Mining Profitability Calculator - http://explorer.yacoin.org/static/calc.htm
Inflation Charts - http://explore.grokonet.com/?inflation=1
Mining Profitability Calculator - http://whattomine.com

Community volunteers
Joe_Bauers - Wallet development
senj - Wallet development
old c coder - Wallet development, Outreach
Groko - Wallet, QT, Forum, Block Explorer
sairon - Block explorer
Sahtor - Forum, Faucet, IRC
Thirtybird - Mining development
WindMaster - Immoral support

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:08:11 PM

thx
i am glad to see it

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:11:04 PM

Thanks for doing this Wind. This is the only other than BTC/ LTC that I find interesting.

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:22:12 PM

so do we update or not?

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:24:18 PM

Fantastic! I'm willing to contribute. However I must go to sleep now Cheesy

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:24:45 PM

Quote from: aikklond on May 15, 2013, 11:22:12 PM

so do we update or not?

You can if you wish. There are no functional changes implemented yet, I've just forked the repository a bit ago and started cleaning up the errant NovaCoin NVC references. Particularly on Windows, the UPnP and mining performance issues remain at this point, but those are high-priority targets to fix soon. If you just want your client to say YAC instead of NVC for now, you can update if you wish. Otherwise if you're running fine on the official YACoin client, wait for now.

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:36:14 PM

Will watch it too. I wish I could contribute actual code. I can get some translations done tho.

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Re: [YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:44:40 PM

I'd like to help develop Yacoin further. I have C++ experience from 2005, I've made some GPU miners (notably the first open source LTC GPU miner), but not much anything specifically coin-development-related. Do you use IRC?

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:49:49 PM

glad to see you step it up.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 15, 2013, 11:51:32 PM

#10

Good to hear, Wind. You seem like a sharp guy, so I'm looking forward to the development. Thanks, mate.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 12:02:37 AM

#11

I don't have any programming skills but I'd definitely contribute to any bounties collected for whatever might be needed. I'm not rich by any means but I'd contribute. I'll post it over in the bounty thread.

edit: thanks WindMaster.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 12:06:45 AM
Last edit: May 16, 2013, 03:02:44 AM by seleme

#12

Good job mate, at some time I've found it strange that you were posting some things considering that you hold lot of coins but I'm glad you stepped up and decided to do stuff to protect your investment (mine too, haha) and you obviously know your stuff.

YAC is definitely most interesting coin from all recently made and as much as original creator disappeared he at least had put some work in it and added some innovation.

I'm shit and complete noob in anything tech related but if you need some hard labour help, just shoot me pm.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development

May 16, 2013, 12:55:15 AM
Last edit: May 23, 2013, 12:39:07 AM by WindMaster

#13

YACoin Technical Data
(this post will contain information about the basic parameters of YACoin, including more information on the hashing algorithm which is *not* called scrypt-jane, timeframe for N increases, PoS details when they become known, etc)

The schedule of N changes for YACoin is:

Nfactor	N	Memory	UNIX Time	Date/Time in GMT	Hashrate for 2x Xeon E5450
4	32	4kB	1367991200	Wed - 08 May 2013 - 05:33:20 GMT	358,770
5	64	8kB	1368515488	Tue - 14 May 2013 - 07:11:28 GMT	279,158
6	128	16kB	1368777632	Fri - 17 May 2013 - 08:00:32 GMT	193,995
7	256	32kB	1369039776	Mon - 20 May 2013 - 08:49:36 GMT	119,252
8	512	64kB	1369826208	Wed - 29 May 2013 - 11:16:48 GMT	66,956
9	1024	128kB	1370088352	Sat - 01 Jun 2013 - 12:05:52 GMT	34,803
10	2048	256kB	1372185504	Tue - 25 Jun 2013 - 18:38:24 GMT	18,013
11	4096	512kB	1373234080	Sun - 07 Jul 2013 - 21:54:40 GMT	9,077
12	8192	1MB	1376379808	Tue - 13 Aug 2013 - 07:43:28 GMT	4,595
13	16384	2MB	1380574112	Mon - 30 Sep 2013 - 20:48:32 GMT	2,276
14	32768	4MB	1384768416	Mon - 18 Nov 2013 - 09:53:36 GMT	606
15	65536	8MB	1401545632	Sat - 31 May 2014 - 14:13:52 GMT	187
16	131072	16MB	1409934240	Fri - 05 Sep 2014 - 16:24:00 GMT	81
17	262144	32MB	1435100064	Tue - 23 Jun 2015 - 22:54:24 GMT	30.55
18	524288	64MB	1468654496	Sat - 16 Jul 2016 - 07:34:56 GMT	14.80
19	1048576	128MB	1502208928	Tue - 08 Aug 2017 - 16:15:28 GMT	7.16
20	2097152	256MB	1602872224	Fri - 16 Oct 2020 - 18:17:04 GMT	3.5
21	4194304	512MB	1636426656	Tue - 09 Nov 2021 - 02:57:36 GMT	1.73
22	8388608	1GB	1904862112	Mon - 13 May 2030 - 00:21:52 GMT	1.07
23	16777216	2GB	2173297568	Sat - 13 Nov 2038 - 21:46:08 GMT
24	33554432	4GB	2441733024	Fri - 17 May 2047 - 19:10:24 GMT
25	67108864	8GB	3247039392	Tue - 22 Nov 2072 - 11:23:12 GMT
26	134217728	16GB	3515474848	Mon - 26 May 2081 - 08:47:28 GMT
27	268435456	32GB	5662958496	Sat - 14 Jun 2149 - 12:01:36 GMT
28	536870912	64GB	6736700320	Tue - 24 Jun 2183 - 01:38:40 GMT
29	1073741824	128GB	9957925792	Tue - 21 Jul 2285 - 18:29:52 GMT
30	2147483648	256GB	14252893088	Sat - 28 Aug 2421 - 00:58:08 GMT

N is calculated from Nfactor as follows:
N = 1 << ( Nfactor + 1 )

Note on hashrate benchmarks above - Hardware used was an IBM HS21 blade server containing two Xeon E5450 CPU's and 8GB of PC2-5300F RAM (667MHz DDR2), running Debian Linux 6.0, using cpuminer. 4 cores per CPU, so 8 cores total, test run with 8 threads, SSE enabled (AVX not supported on this CPU). Combined performance of these two Xeon CPU's is in the same ballpark as a typical i7-2600k desktop PC.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 12:59:20 AM

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 01:07:16 AM

#15

really awesome to see someone step up on this! Really also hoping some of the current YAC pool operators may be willing to share the modifications they made to get YAC working with the standard tools (or perhaps I missed it). Pools are critical for more widespread adoption, and right now the choices seem somewhat slim.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 01:27:15 AM

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Hmmmmm, may be hope for this yet...Good thing I bought a shit ton of them, @.0003 Grin

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 01:33:25 AM

#17

Quote from: Hydroponica on May 16, 2013, 01:27:15 AM

Hmmmmm, may be hope for this yet...Good thing I bought a shit ton of them, @.0003 Grin

Unfortunately for you, you were not that smart (though obviously dying to leave that impression) and spent most of the time being your usual self (prick) on YAC threads.

This one is from few hours ago and it's academic line among all crap you posted :

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Why would I waste money on a coin I don't believe in?

But you still have a chance to buy few thousands up to .0005 Wink

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 01:37:51 AM

#18

Quote from: seleme on May 16, 2013, 01:33:25 AM

Quote from: Hydroponica on May 16, 2013, 01:27:15 AM

Hmmmmm, may be hope for this yet...Good thing I bought a shit ton of them, @.0003 Grin

Unfortunately for you, you were not that smart and spent most of the time talking crap on YAC threads.

This one is from few hours ago :

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Why would I waste money on a coin I don't believe in?

But you still have a chance to buy few thousands up to .0005 Wink

Nice quote, but that was from a few days ago, actually...And I already bought them, earlier today, at .0003.

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Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - Unofficial client fork

May 16, 2013, 01:41:03 AM

#19

Quote from: Hydroponica on May 16, 2013, 01:37:51 AM

Quote from: seleme on May 16, 2013, 01:33:25 AM

Quote from: Hydroponica on May 16, 2013, 01:27:15 AM

Hmmmmm, may be hope for this yet...Good thing I bought a shit ton of them, @.0003 Grin

Unfortunately for you, you were not that smart and spent most of the time talking crap on YAC threads.

This one is from few hours ago :

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Why would I waste money on a coin I don't believe in?

But you still have a chance to buy few thousands up to .0005 Wink

Nice quote, but that was from a few days ago, actually...And I already bought them, earlier today, at .0003.

No, you haven't as it never went below .00035 and guess who bought it there Cheesy

(though all sold at that price was not close to shitload)

But again, it's still cheap, sell your dolls and buy few Grin

PS. sorry windmaster, I know it's not a place for this and I'll stop right now but this one was particularly cuntish these days, was a pleasure to put him on his place.