Am I right in thinking that there are around 70 million YAC at the moment? Even if I owned them all, would I not get any POS, because someone else does the mining?
You are right! Someone else (we're calling him 'Malicious Miner') has enough computational power, there is no YACoin authority to stop him from doing so.
That is called
'51% Attack'That is not exactly right. I am still not sure how the PoS/PoW system gives weight or priority to PoW over PoS, and within PoS, what gives one input of coins priority over another. As senj has stated, PoS inputs with larger coins do not equate to larger 'trust' to be accepted on the chain. With that said, I can tell you I am getting a ton of stake inputs not accepted, just as you are, but every day or so, I get a string of 2-4 accepts, so it is working even in this 'hostile' environment... somehow. Also, I am mining (for a loss of course) with CPUs, so the network isn't COMPLETELY dominated.
There is a problem when this process isn't easily understood, transparent. I'm not going to comment on my intelligence, but I am telling you, if I don't get it at this point, it does not bode well for the cause of widespread acceptance! Once the network is out of the chaos it is currently in, people are going to want to know in simple terms when they can expect to earn their PoS reward and be assured/confident of it.
By the way, alevaa, please lower that 2% fee to 1%. Raise it to 2% later if you want, but holy smokes, why tax miners at a rate more than other scrypt-chacha coins at a time when miners are so desperately needed--which is an understatement.
Encouragement is never a bad thing! I sincerely believe we have the smartest people in all of crypto working on these issues now. I will again echo my support for Ron's point about the code being obscure. I think it is extremely valuable to NOT have code that is obscure to most of the best computer programmers. Take that for what it is worth coming from someone who is definitely not savvy with any computing language. Perhaps there is some underlying, self-preservation thoughts behind it? If no one can understand the code, it makes it harder for an outsider to be considered 'better'? I don't know. Whatever the reason, it does not advance the cause. And we need to move in the direction of widespread support, adoption and less toward an exclusive cult. It is a tendency in the entire realm of crypto. YAC needs to rise above that. Just some rambling thoughts...