Specifications
No premine
Proof of Work: Scrypt-N SHA-3
Proof of Stake: 5% per year
Stake mining: 30 day wait, enabled with checkbox from wallet
Block time: 60 seconds
Block reward: MIN(100, diff ^ 1/6) or variable 0 to 100 based on difficulty
Total coin supply:
Difficulty adjusts every block
Configuration file: yacoin.conf
How it works
Yacoin is the original creator of Scrypt-N Proof of Work. Yacoin chose a PoW algoritm SHA-3 KECCAK to further distance itself from other coin creation schemes. Yacoin uses Proof of Stake to secure itself from pure PoW attacks.
Proof of Stake is an improved version from Peercoin's implementation. Yacoin counts PoS blocks with equal weight as PoW blocks.
Downloads
Github source
http://github.com/yacoin/yacoin
0.4.3 fixes the Heartbleed bug
Windows wallet
0.4.3 Yacoin 0.4.3.zip
sha1sum = 91ee8d1d140169c0af604c9649b977da890f644d
Ubuntu PPA
ppa:yacoin/yacoin
https://launchpad.net/~yacoin/+archive/yacoin
Mining instructions
Example yacoin.conf file:
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rpcuser=my_user_name
rpcpassword=my_pasword
server=1
gen=1
genproclimit=-1
rpcpassword=my_pasword
server=1
gen=1
genproclimit=-1
or type from the debug console:
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setgenerate true -1
Pools
http://yac.m-s-t.org/
http://yac.coinmine.pl
http://yac.ltcoin.net/
Block explorers
http://explorer.yacoin.org
Paper wallets
http://yaddress.yacoin.org
Exchanges
Bter
http://bter.com/trade/yac_btc
Cryptsy
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/11
Faucet
http://faucet.yacoin.org
Links & Social
Home page - http://yacoin.org
IRC - Channel #yacoin on freenode - http://webchat.freenode.net/
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com/r/yacoin
Twitter - https://twitter.com/YACoinJoe
Charts - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/#jump-yac-btc
CoinMarketCap - http://coinmarketcap.com/yac_7.html
Community volunteers
Joe_Bauers - Wallet development
Groko - Wallet, QT, Forum
sairon - Block explorer
Sahtor - Forum, Faucet, IRC