Topic: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - page 161. (Read 380090 times)

Hey guys, so i got YAC QT working on OSX, if anyone wants to try it out the dl is in my sig.

If there is any other ALT coin you want a mac QT for, let me know.

I like that line. Sigged.

Happy N increase everyone!

*pulls a party popper*

Umm so I have a question.
Why is the nfactor going up so quickly? And I mean if the point is to make GPU mining impossible then sure do it, but what I don't get is how the reward has only BARELY gone up since the difficulty changed from 9 to (currently) 1.82. I mean hell I would be happy if we were mining transaction fees cause really PPC's idea of destroying inflation via removing transaction fees only worked because it had a huge supply of coins being created with every block where as YAC has like 20. I mean is there like a logarithmic decline between the initial 100 we started mining and the 22.6 we are grinding for now? Furthermore was the difficulty/reward changed at all when it was copied from novacoin? I mean the effects of the nfactor don't seem to be taken into account. I know YAC is trying to do the fast confirmation thing but it really doesnt suit the coin, given that the speed of everyone mining gets halved nearly every couple of days doesn't seem to affect the difficulty. I don't know maybe I am just upset that POS takes so long even though the actual time between blocks is so fast. I mean for fuck's sake could we get one POS coin that allows a normal person to collect interest on their hard earned coins without having to sit on them for nearly 2 months, because I doubt anyone made their entire fortune in the first month, well except for those guys who were lucky enough to solomine with 100 yac rewards when the n factor didnt make a difference. 
To be honest I don't know what I want, I would really just be happy seeing POS work properly and not take so long to kick in because it really is all the same. I would prefer that POS worked after a week but the staked coins took like from 2-4 weeks to mature or something like that.
I just hope that YAC doesn't die of auto-erotic asphyxiatioN (factor) cause I like what it stood for, the altcoin for the everyman, where the sweat on one's brow could be used to cool one's overheating CPU while simultaneously leveraging the GPU for bitcoin mining.

Are you using this ? If not do it ! Use the AVX version.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yacoin-windows-7-x64-ssse3-and-avx-support-x86-miner-201027

How are you getting these relatively high hash rates?

On my W530 laptop (which is no slouch, it has a core i7 w/32 gb) I'm way down around 10 kh/s, which I don't understand.

What are you guys mining with?

-Michael

Here it is 

2 minutes until N changes

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2162620

When is that going to be?

Guys, have you seen bitminter.com? Very neat pool. They do something similar to what we were talking about with bitcoin. Java web start client...relative no-brainer to get started (certainly a LOT better than setting up cgminer). I use cgminer/anubis with my farm, but ran their client on my workstation to try it out. It looks like they have about 8000 miners on their systems, around 2/3 of which are using the bitminter client. Funny thing is, their client does detect the CPU and offer it as a mining device, although I don't think that's used much anymore.



Another option is to create a pushpool client that works like this. A mmcfe fork could be created that offers services like statistics, registration via an API, to allow the user to just download the client and register from it, as well as viewing their statistics. There could be a master pool directory web service that could be used to allow switching between pools possibly. If something like OpenID or Google Accounts OAuth was used, registration could just be off of their google account, for instance, further simplifying things (this is how bitminter works for the initial signin).

p2pool is probably the most "resilent" way to do it, but my thought is that p2pool has a major deficiency currently with their statistics feedback. In short, it really sucks (IMHO). Any user of a tool like this wants to see, at an absolute minimum:
* their current hashrate
* estimated coins per day
* graph of coin yield over the past week or so
* graph of hash rate over the past week or so

This info doesn't necessarily need to be in the tool itself, but has to be available. With bitminter, it's on their site when you're logged in.

If anything, this is food for thought to me at least.

Hashrate for me looks to be around 125MH

$ ./yacoind getnetworkhashps
125940739
(then about a minute later)
$ ./yacoind getnetworkhashps
128083276
(another minute later)
$ ./yacoind getnetworkhashps
127557858

The code I added to yacoind to produce the "networkhashps" info is only an estimate, and is based on spacing between solved blocks over a fairly short period of time.  There isn't a way to directly measure hash rate, the best we can do is estimate it.  Variability is capable of producing the swing you observed above.  From my own data collection process that keeps track of average block spacing, at this time my opinion is that there wasn't a sustained rise in (estimated) hash rate that would be outside the realm of variability.

Now, if the estimated hash rate jumped and then stayed at that level, that would be more interesting and much less likely to be just a variability-induced fluctuation in the way my hash rate estimation code works.

I copied a good portion of the hash rate estimation code from Litecoin.  Our (target) block rate is 2.5x faster than Litecoin.  Perhaps I should tweak the code to average the hash rate estimate across 2.5x more blocks than Litecoin does to try to smooth out some of these swings so we're at least averaging over the same amount of time.  Even Litecoin's hash rate estimate has some pretty wild swings due to variability.

you should go ahead and read a few pages back in this thread. This has been covered multiple times already.

How could anyone have an OpenCL implementation of scypt-jane?

I didn't think that was possible, not even theoretically.

-Michael

lol i need to get some sleep its 1:55am here "/

http://31.220.1.53:8335  P2P YAC POOL 2% fee

He refers to the second row of his sample.

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Interesting, where do you see this 160Mhash ?

We are hitting n=512 in a couple hours, by the way.