Incrementing N will lead to immediate hashing speed decrease. Difficulty will reflect these speed changes (i.e. difficulty will decrease after N++) with lags. As soon as block reward depends on difficulty the reward will increase also and more miners will be motivated to join after N++. It's not easy to predict now but we can be sure that some waves will happen on each N++ event.
when will this event be?
Read official website
http://www.yacoin.org/about.htmlSays first one is on May 14th. Bookmark that date!
May 14, N=64, 8Kb
May 17, N=128, 16Kb
May 20, N=256, 32Kb
May 29, N=512, 64Kb
I've already asked for this but it's lost in this very very long thread :
Do you know the precise time (with time zone of course) it'll happen ?
Using the nfactor calculating code from the client I get for the coming year (timestamps in UTC):
Wed May 8 05:33:20 2013, factor: 4
Tue May 14 07:11:28 2013, factor: 5
Fri May 17 08:00:32 2013, factor: 6
Mon May 20 08:49:36 2013, factor: 7
Wed May 29 11:16:48 2013, factor: 8
Sat Jun 1 12:05:52 2013, factor: 9
Tue Jun 25 18:38:24 2013, factor: 10
Sun Jul 7 21:54:40 2013, factor: 11
Tue Aug 13 07:43:28 2013, factor: 12
Mon Sep 30 20:48:32 2013, factor: 13
Mon Nov 18 09:53:36 2013, factor: 14