YACoin Resurrection Hard Fork – Heliopolis
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-Unique algorithm. Sticking to its roots, YAC will maintain the inventive scrypt-chacha (aka scrypt-jane). NFactor will be set at 21 to be ASIC resistance but also mineable for many CPUs and GPUs.
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I was hoping to better understand this.
Currently (pre hard-fork) the N-factor was set to be increase on a fixed schedule. After the hard-fork I believe it will be "set" to 21.
What are the plans to increase the N-factor over time? As technology improves so will the mining capabilities. Litecoin for example - was "GPU proof" and shortly after home graphic cards became powerful enough to mine. Following that the "scrypt" algorithm became ASIC territory. I'm sure we don't want something similar to occur to YAC down the road. And to increase the N-factor when 'ASICs seem to be getting close' seems arbitrary.
Is there something in the protocol to handle N-factor increases? Or can it be included?