Topic: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - page 156. (Read 379876 times)

Yeah. The N changes were too fast. If someone were to make another coin based on this but have the N changes like once every 3-6 months it would work out much better for everyone.

That would make the most "perfect" alt coin in existance IMHO.

I've seen posts by several folks recently that are starting to mine yacoin on CPUs are running into very disappointing returns. Especially for a coin as new as yacoin, this could be an issue that hinders adoption. I think that possibly the N adjustments have been coming a bit too fast (or the block reward is too little) too early on. I see the difficulty is continuing to drop after the last N increase, but I wonder if that will be enough. The coin still only has a circulation of a bit over 3MM with about half of that being amassed in the top 10 addresses. Yacoin's unique CPU potential aside, the viability of any new currency lies in its ability to be distributed initially in as wide and efficient a manner as possible, rewarding early adopters but also encouraging newcomers to adopt it as the monetary base expands. I fear we may be turning some folks off to the coin. The expectation is that these folks not think they're becoming "rich", but more get more of a reward than 10 cents worth of coin for mining it on their CPU for a day.

This issue has two possible solutions: tweaking the coin parameters down the road a bit, or continuing to work to increase per-coin valuation through other means. The first could backfire, however. What is everyone's opinion on this?

Can someone make a browser miner (like bitcoinplus.com for bitcoins)? It is very suitable for CPU mining. And it would be a good way for the populace to go in yacoins.

http://yacexplorer.tk/graphs.htm Goto the tech info.

Geee.. so only a few people have a GPU miner for this?

And how fast can a GPU run?

I will try Nfactor 12 this weekend. I think it's achievable although maybe slower.

What kind of hashrate can you expect from an AMD 8350 with the current N-value with cpuminerd using AVX?

How is GPU development going ? Anyone succeeded in going above NFactor 12 ?
The overall hashrate is increasing and I wonder how many GPU's are hitting the network ...

My bad. Video encoding was messing it up. 

N is still 1024:


If your hash rate dropped in half without N changing, you probably have some sort of other local problem happening.

Um.. my hash rate just got cut in half again. The next N change was supposed to be on the 25th wasn't it?

I took a look at Litecoin mining calculators. http://litecoinminingcalculator.com/

Seconds to find block = (diff * 2^32) / (hashrate )
Coins per day = (24 * 3600) / seconds per block * block reward

Yacoin block reward is 25 at diff 1. I dont know the exact formula yet.

5Kh/s = 2.5 YACs per day

Anyone happen to know the formula to figure out how many coins per hash rate you can get?

Have there been any speed improvements in CPUMiner done recently?  I'm still using the first version

Difficulty dropped below 1 and block reward over 25. I see mining as viable option for smaller computers soon.

Sweet. Thanks a bunch. 

Yes, getmininginfo works fine.

So anybody doing anything to update YACoin?

Thanks Hanzac. Did you happen to put the network hashrate command in?

C:\mingw64>gcc --version
gcc (rubenvb-4.7.4-release) 4.7.3