Specifications
No premine
Proof of Work: Scrypt-N SHA-3
Proof of Stake: 5% per year [change to] 0.05 YAC rewarded per coin*year after 30 days
Stake minting: 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: No upper limit Added--probably needs help. Will look for a good explanation from one of the clones
Difficulty adjusts every block
Configuration file: yacoin.conf

How it works I think more explanation can go here? Maybe some sales pitching--include outstanding features like coin control, checkbox stake minting, longterm asic resistance, each NFactor change decreases difficulty/increases block reward for newcomers with CPUs and low-end GPUs. I can work on something later. Great start!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:


or type from the debug console:


Standalone miners Entire section added

GPU Miner

https://github.com/Thirtybird/YACMiner/releases

Instructions: Perhaps ThirtyBird can give basic instructions here?

Example settings:

yacminer --scrypt-chacha --worksize 256 -g 1 --lookup-gap 2 --buffer-size 1700 -R 1280 -o stratum+tcp://: -u -p

CPU Miner

https://github.com/Thirtybird/cpuminer/releases

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
YACoin Wiki - http://yacoinwiki.tk Added
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
NFactor Countdown - http://download.muuttuja.org/yacoin/countdown/ Added
Mining Hardware Comparison - http://yacoinwiki.tk/index/php/Mining_Hardware_Comparison  Added--or put in standalone miners section
Mining Profitability Calculator - http://explorer.yacoin.org/static/calc.htm  Added--or put in standalone miners section

Community volunteers
Joe_Bauers - Wallet development And yacoin.org Webmaster?
Groko - Wallet, QT, Forum
sairon - Block explorer
Sahtor - Forum, Faucet, IRC
ThirtyBird - Mining development Added