Informationen
YaCoin Pools (Pushpool)
http://yacp.coinmine.pl
YaCoin Pools (P2Pool)
http://yacointalk.com
http://yac.procrypto.com:8336/
http://yacpool.cloudapp.net:8336
YaCoin
Exchanges
Bter.com
YaCoin longtime charts
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info
YaCoin
Block Explorer
http://yacexplorer.tk/
YaCoin is a fork of Novacoin
(arguably one of the most elegant Crypto-coin designs) with changes to
gaurantee long-term protection against GPU and ASIC mining. YaCoin also
features ultra-fast transaction verification time. You can send,
receive and verify payments in 60 seconds.
- Long-term GPU and ASIC protection
- Ultra-fast transactions (send and receive payments fast)
- Long-term energy efficiency (via Proof-of-Stake mining)
- High incentive CPU-only Proof-of-Work mining
- Secure and robust (based on Novacoin code-base)
YaCoin has a base block reward of 100 coins that depends on the difficulty. The difficulty is also controlled by an "N-parameter" to the Scrypt hash function, whose purpose is to protect the network against GPUs and ASICs. Incrementing N will lead to immediate hashing speed decrease. The difficulty will reflect these speed changes (i.e., the difficulty will decrease after N++) with lags. As soon as block reward depends on difficulty the reward will increase also and more miners will be motivated to join after N++. It's not easy to predict now but we can be sure that some waves will happen on each N++ event.
Long-term GPU and ASIC protection
GPU and ASIC resistance provides short-term incentive for adoption, disseminates the currency to a wide body of users and protects the network in the long-term. It enables all peers to participate equally in the network, regardless of their financial backing. This helps protect YaCoin from abandonment when large-scale players, with institutional investment come in with expensive hardware, such as ASICs and GPU farms.
Whether you have a few Intel i7's or a ATI Radeon 5790 GPU, you can share in mining profitability.
CPU-only mining is achieved by dynamically changing the Scrypt hash parameters in response to GPU and ASIC mining--- so-called N++ Scrypt difficulty adjustment (details below).
Crypto details
YaCoin uses the Scrypt(N, 1, 1) hash function and ChaCha stream cypher instead of Salsa and Keccak512 instead of SHA-256. The value of N depends on block.nTime and increases. The starting value was 32 (4 Kbs).
May 14, N=64, 8Kb
May 17, N=128, 16Kb
May 20, N=256, 32Kb
May 29, N=512, 64Kb
...
Parameters
- Default port is 7688 - Forwarding this port can help if you have connection problems
- Block target 1 minute
- Block reward is 100 coins and depends on difficulty