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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][YAC] yacoin: yet another altcoin. Release in 24 hours.
by
tallbikeguy
on 05/05/2013, 23:18:58 UTC
Nice idea. What is the starting difficulty going to be?

I'm really confused here. People kicked up a big fuss about BitBar's starting difficulty (even though it was no different to a lot of other coin launches) and now a new coin is launching no-one cares about the starting difficulty? I notice Substrata isn't asking about this in this thread which is amusing to me since half of his 70 odd posts must be about BitBar's difficulty level lol

Why would anyone care about starting difficulty for CPU mined coin?

BitBar seems like it's unfairly enriching those who were poised to mine in the first hour or so, due to the extremely low (0?) starting difficulty.  Same with Feathercoin and most other altcoins.  If N is reasonable and difficulty is reasonable to start, everyone gets a similar chance of enjoying the kickoff.