Topic: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development - page 46. (Read 379983 times)

Hi Joe,

It doesn't look like there is any conflict/overlap. etc. between my additions to 0.4.4 and your 0.4.5!  

Is that really leveldb 1.12 I see sneaking into YACoin?    

Ron

Is there a windows release of this?  I didn't see it under the releases page in GitHub...

https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/releases

I've uploaded the "mostly completed" Yacoin 0.4.5 to github here:  https://github.com/yacoin/yacoin/tree/YAC045

There are still some things to be done before we're ready to go live though. I am VERY pressed for time lately, so if some of the current or former devs can help, it would make things go quicker for sure. I've placed comments of // YACOIN TODO at all the places that need some attention.  Also, I've included a YACTODO.txt file of things that still need to be done.

Old C Coder has also added an amazing feature to the old codebase, an integrated explorer! 
https://github.com/ya1-old-c-coder/yacoin/commit/714248203523c7c8ac1c3cef19702c9aba38ba52

It would be great if we could merge that in to the YAC045 code above, but another option might be to release Ron's explorer as 0.4.5 and save everything else for 0.4.6.

Added to the first post of the thread.

Being able to see the mining speeds in hash/s is much for useful then in khash/s.  I was having connection issued with yac.m-s-t.org and I've recently switched back to yac.coinmine.pl.  Haven't had any issues since. 

YAC/BTC and YAC/USD trading pairs are now on www.crypto-trade.com ! Per usual, I urge you to not keep substantial amounts of coins on any exchange. I am cautiously optimistic with cryptotrade, and it is great to be able to trade directly for USD.

I have also increased my GIVE-A-WAY to 4000 YACoin! It really is minimal work to take $4 USD worth of YACoin from me, and it will be for a great cause. Please check out the thread with the details:  https://forum.yacoin.org/index.php?topic=672.msg3501

I also want to thank feeleep for adjusting how hashrates are displayed on yac.coinmine.pl. Since not one graphics card out there can break 1 khash/s, it makes more sense to see your hashrate in hash/s. Thanks a lot, feeleep! I encourage anyone using his pool to donate a small percentage as a courtesy.

Good friends of the Yacoin community!

We will be starting with our charity focused coin X-CHILDREN's airdrop tonight at 21 EST.
Join us at Bittrex, we will be exchanging 1000 CHILD per every 1000 satoshi price increase, starting from 2000 child for the first order.

Our goal is to sell the 100k+ coins the donation fund contains, and reach a substantial donation for Save the Children IT.

We will document every time we reach 1 BTC, and donate the funds sending Euros to the Save the Children IT bank account.

Twitter @ivan_labrie

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9812619

This would be a first for any cryptocoin as far as I know.  They all use C/C++ to my knowledge.

You know another thing that would be cool? YAC client and miner coded in Rust.

This is great news!

YAC will now have a USD trading pair!

https://www.crypto-trade.com/news/98

Thank you, aso. You can tell alts are struggling to gain traction with newcomers when you look at all of the recent forks and algorithm changes. I believe the only way people will buy into a coin, especially one that has been around for a long time, is to sell them on the user-friendly aspect. I want to tell someone on the street to visit www.yacoin.org and make them feel confident there isn't a huge barrier to entry into this alternative currency. Bitcoin even has a lot of work to do in this realm--you can sense the need.

Here are the basic requirements explained:

1) Built-In Miner - It is much more user friendly to have a one-stop program to mine, mint, send, manage YACoins. ThirtyBird's YACminer has done wonders improving and optimizing mining operations. Why not have his YACminer incorporated in the wallet itself? Also, allow for the minerd cpu miner to be utilized within the wallet as well as Nvidia card miners that are already out there.

2) Auto-tune - ThirtyBird has discussed and looked into this feature before. It is something that cudaminer already has done for NVidia cards. The idea here is to make it so one does not need to fool around to find close-to-optimum settings. I envision an 'Advanced' section can allow tweaks or troubleshooting. It doesn't have to be exactly optimum, but the goal is to lower the barrier to entry to allow a computer-illiterate to start mining right away, cost-effectively with ease.

3) Auto-detect - This concept may be the most difficult. Bitminter autodetects hardware through it's java application. This feature should detect every piece of hardware connected to the system that is capable of mining YAC--CPU and GPUs.

The bottom-line is that the software aspect of mining should be as easy, user-friendly as possible. Ideally, I could see a couple 'buttons' on the main wallet view with "Earn Interest" and "Earn through Computing Hardware" options. There could also be a wizard that pops up for entering pool information as necessary.

I would love to promote YAC to a wide audience, but mining software is at a point that turns off a lot of potential stakeholders. I think when people enjoy spending a lot of time working on computers and code, they tend to forget how foreign and complicated unappealing even the simplest tasks seem to a lot of people.

I imagine ThirtyBird, Joe_Bauers, Groko, old c coder could work together on this project, but I also hope more people will donate to the bounty to make it worth the interest of other intelligent people in the cryptoworld near the same caliber. It would open up a lot of doors in terms of marketing if it can be said YACoin is THE most user-friendly coin in crypto. Besides, it there a coin out there right now that favors CPU mining as much as YAC?

Per usual, the YACoin for the bounty will be kept in a specified address. Please feel free to help grow the bounty. Given my reputation, it is safe to say the coins will be kept safe and secure until the bounty if fulfilled. I will use my discretion and consult with other contributors of the bounty to make sure the intent is sufficiently fulfilled (ie there may be some room for creativity in the Autodetect feature). Any and all feedback will be appreciated. Thank you!

Bounty Address: YAA2QgGmKdzo31pg6iZBQNTF2xgRHmsVXw

**I tried posting on forum.yacoin.org, but I kept getting a 502 bad gateway error. If anyone can fix that, I will post on those forums.

I can't get much more than 100h/s on 280x. Is that ok after last nfactor change? It seems to me that there is much room for improvements here regarding compatibility with new catalyst drivers.

GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1

I'd be happy to 'beta test' it if you wanted to try running it on another computer.

Probably 90% I have been able to compile and run the new version, so should be soon.

Where is the new wallet update? Any new details about the development progress?

Been poking around in the scrypt-chacha OpenCL; it's interesting.