I'll definitely make an increasing reward YAC clone. Why not? I was just looking for some support, I guess.
Why not be part of the Yacoin dev effort instead?
That would mean hard forking yacoin. Would people support it?
A hard fork for 0.4.5 is going to be required no matter what. That source is here:
https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/tree/testing So, without going overboard, we should do any major changes for that.
I absolutely support all the work and support feeleep has had for YAC over the years, but we also need more pools or large solo miners.
Again, can some of the 'veterans' weigh in on the issue please?
Joe, birdvox's idea is changing the reward structure, which should not be entertained whatsoever as part of YAC.
feeleep's pool seems to be stable with the block time at 1 min 20 sec, and it has over 73% of the network hashrate at this moment, due to one miner youguqm. I'm sure that will change later today though. I am solo-mining with over 2 khash/s, and I am getting orphans. So basically the pool is the one 'attacking' now.
I can muster over 10 khash/s to the pool as needed, but I would have to monitor the network closely to try to balance, but we know it wouldn't be enough for this unknown 'malicious miner' with enormous hashrates.
The way I see it...
1) It is important to preserve a working pool to allow entry into the market of individuals with say 1 or 2 computers. It will help with decentralization and to simply get more people interested. Along those lines, there really NEEDS to be a more seamless process to encourage newcomers, miners, which is where the
Built-In Miner with Autotune, Autodetect would help...
https://forum.yacoin.org/index.php?topic=716.02) At the same time, a stable pool can have a negative affect on decentralization. Coinmine.pl dominated the network for a long time until recently, and it essentially shut out the other pools YAC used to have. Now there could be a single point of failure if we have just one pool in control of the entire network.
we also need more pools or large solo miners.
I agree, but I just had nearly 5% of the entire network (at 1 min 20 sec block time) solo mining, and I couldn't get a single block confirmed. I think something needs to be done in the code to help the cause--in addition to encouraging more 'anti-malicious' mining power.