About payments:
As far as I know (and I'm monitoring this situation) public chain has about 100% orphaned blocks. So no one on public chain has payments.
I thought the orphaned issue was 'fixed' and the 'malicious miner' had stopped. So are you saying that even if I do get solo mining working there is a very good chance that the computing power I dedicated to mining will be on a 'split' blockchain?
About config:1-st question. Do you mine with minerd and yacoind on the same computer?
If answer yes - you
dont need the option gen=1 in file yacoin.conf
Gen=1 only affects whether yacoind itself will mine. It does not need to be on in order for an external mining program such as minerd to work. All minerd needs is an RPC connection to yacoind in order to find out what work it needs to do.
If answer no - i.e., minerd and yacoind are running on different PCs
You should set rpcallowip with minerd IP and use yacoind IP in url
http://yacoind_ip:34332-nd. You
shouldnt use stratum in url because yacoind has no stratum!
Simply use
http://127.0.0.1:34333-rd. Your wallet
should be unlockedAlso please check option -a scrypt-jane
It may be ok for you version of minerd but for my Im using -a scrypt-chacha
My cmd line:
minerd-x64-avx.exe -a scrypt-chacha -o http://192.168.1.1:3334 -O alenevaa.CPU1:1
I hope it helps you!

Best wishes
Ah - I didn't realize that with the stratum. And that the wallet needed to be unlocked. I just unlocked it now and its going a bit crazy trying to stake. I'll try mining again in a few hours when my processor isn't running at 99%.