Re: [ANN][YAC] yacoin: yet another altcoin. START is now.

Thanks. I got permission, but noticed that there are a bunch of hidden folders that I need to show, including .yacoin... Cheesy

Anyway, I created the yacoin.conf file with added instructions as on www.yacoin.org, thanks for the link.

Now I started it (?) with ./yacoind -daemon -gen -addnode=82.211.30.212 and it says:
"YaCoin server starting", nothing more, nothing less.

- I assume it will need to download the block chain?
- How will I know if it is mining and how do I know when a block is found
- I have not entered my YaCoin address anywhere, how would it know where to deposit it? (I have it running under windows, but I assume I have a separate wallet unde Ubuntu.) If it uses my address automatically, how do I access the Ubuntu wallet to see the balance and to transfer them?

Sorry for all the questions, but I assume I am not the only one. Many thanks.

cd ~/yacoin/src/
./yacoind help

that will list all the commands you can send to the yacoin wallet.
./yacoind gethashespersec
will show you your speed
./yacoind listtransactions
will display all your transactions

Thanks! Ah, that makes sense in a weird, Linux kind of way ;-)

I have a hashcount but it seems only one core is hashing (of my 2600k I7, which has 4cores/8threads. I only have 12-13% CPU usage. Are the number of cores used hardcoded somewhere? Or can I change it in the yacoin.conf?

EDIT: I tried adding genproclimit=7 to the yacoin.conf file, but no difference after restarting. Also tried by restarting with
me@ubuntu:~/yacoin/src$ ./yacoind -daemon -gen -genproclimit=7 -addnode=82.211.30.212
me@ubuntu:~/yacoin/src$ YaCoin server starting

But still only 12-13% CPU usage and about 65khash/sec?

did the wallet sync all the blocks? you can make a gui version of the wallet too