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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][YAC] YACoin ongoing development
by
Thirtybird
on 21/08/2013, 15:07:51 UTC
Hey sairon or Joe_Bauers (with Joe being the only one who has ever contributed code to my version of the client), want to take over my Github repository (github.com/yacoin)?  My enthusiasm for continuing development is decreasing, given the number of people that constantly send me private messages that the sky is falling if we don't immediately hard fork to change {insert random non-critical thing here that is different in YACoin than any other coin and/or doesn't work exactly how someone wants it to, or that we need to protect against hypothetical attacks that only exist in the sender's imagination due to misunderstandings of how the code works}.  My favorite is all the PM's I get demanding we hard fork to change the difficulty calculation so after Nfactor++ events, average block time won't temporarily rise from 1 minute to 2 minutes for a few days while difficulty adjusts (oh no!).

I no longer hold any appreciable amount of YAC (well, other than a few thousand laying around somewhere) and haven't for quite a while.

I'm sorry to hear this, and obviously this explains why you have been fairly quiet of late.  I thought I was helping by suggesting the difficulty adjustment in the thread - it appears to have had the opposite effect (though I still maintain it's not a horrible idea when you think about more real-time transactions)