Best thing to do would be to get the miners stable on YaCoin using it as a TESTNET, until we have stable miners for both Linux and Windows and to see if someone doesn't just bring out a GPU miner anyway.
Once it looks a fairly safe bet as a new coin we can just fork his git and start all over again with a fair race to the finish line.
How does this ^^ sound?
With the interest his thread has generated there is obviously a gap for a well thought out CPU only coin. With enough interest and support I don't even mind managing the project with full disclosure to ALL before mining begins. I'm here because I believe in crypto currencies, not because I see a get rich quick scheme. Unlike many around here it seems.
I like the idea of everyone banding together on a CPU coin, everyone waiting with guns blazing at the starting line.
You know how they "reset testnet"? How does that work? If you have a bunch of coins on there, and there are like 1000s of people connected, and they reset testnet.. do your coins just vanish? That might be the key.
So what we do is make it so that we have everyone ready and hashing away at a coin, let's say YaCoin, and let the difficulty build up to the appropriate level. Then once it is at the satisfactory level, "reset" the coinbase, and then let the games begin. Everyone is mining at the same time, at the appropriate difficulty, no bitching, no scam.