Is there an estimated time for this coin to be great again, or has it reached the end of the road...
Hello all,
There is a new pull request, hot off the presses, from 22 hours ago(!)
https://github.com/senadj/yacoin/pull/9and there is a working Windows leveldb "boot set" at
http://lostabout.com/btc/yac/yac048boot.zipi.e. a blockchain of ~12/15/2016, MS & gcc daemons for Windows, and a Qt for Windows, suggested .conf, batch files, etc. These can be used with (a copy of) your wallet.dat
These exes are all good to go on MainNet with no future date concerns.
They all have the get YAC price function, and the Qt version has the built in block explorer

This is for any brave Windows' souls who wish to try it out. Hint, read the readme in the .zip file

Since I don't 'do' linux, I can't build exes for non Windows OSs.
Ron