Quote from: Beave162 on August 14, 2014, 10:13:49 AM

Quote from: Joe_Bauers on August 14, 2014, 04:04:25 AM

I agree with roller in that we need to start buying things with Yac, instead of just mining/hoarding. I've put a link up on the website for bitcoinmegamart and also sent out a tweet.

In other news, Yacoin 0.4.4 has been officially released and can be downloaded from yacoin.org or github.
This release includes many updates by old c coder and the stake enhancements mentioned on the previous few pages by grokouser.

From here, we need to start thinking about what to do for 0.4.5! There are many interesting suggestions that have been made and it's time now to look into the pros and cons of some of them and decide what, if anything, to implement.

Great news! Thanks a lot, Joe. I'm updating my wallet now. Sent you a tip for the amazing update (txid 5ec330bb774477ce641979455b81272aabdb6edbcf8909ec362d11c5ede63158)

Thanks you Groko, too! (txid 56af5a86657badb4730707dd0d51b17b2990a5c132aa8951da7551c080576cf7)
Thank you, oldccoder! (txid 8c8273ab2fe43712053c8f815bcb94e5544ed401228c81867cb1313a514f267c)

People can buy things with YAC--convert to BTC. Thanks to bitcoinmegamart for the promotion. Hopefully, more people will mine YAC , convert electricity to YAC and get discounts on buying items by doing so. I disagree on bribing (for lack of a better term) sites at this point because the resources could be put to better use elsewhere. I'll say it didn't seem to help UltraCoin at all. I'll save you my thoughts and theories as to what has the most influence on the price. But hey, that's the beauty of decentralized free market--individuals making their own decisions based on their own self-interest.

In the spirit of this discussion, I'm increasing the GIVE-A-WAY promo to 2000 YACoin per person and extended the deadline to 30 September. Please take my YAC!

https://forum.yacoin.org/index.php?topic=672.0

Thanks Joe - I've been looking forward to this update to have the opportunity to finally mint some of my micro transactions!

Edit: About 16 hours into minting with 0.4.4 and I've went form 3227 transactions in my wallet down to 1687 from the new 'merge' POS minting. Its working great!

Edit: At about 32 hours of minting and down to 733 transaction! A 77% reduction!

I created an active bounty list on YACointalk forum and added Beave's give-a-way. I invite anyone to feel free to add/update the list. https://forum.yacoin.org/index.php?topic=692.0

For possible future wallet development - I'd like to throw the following on the table for consideration. Some of the new POS 'only' (Reddcoin, Blackcoin, etc.) have this nifty arrow in the bottom of the QT wallet. When the user hovers their mouse over it, it indicated there 'weight' and an estimation of how long it will take to mint.

Under the console they also have 'stakeweight' and 'netstakeweight' which is also interesting information. I'm not sure how difficult it would be to 'import' these features, or if anyone else would find them useful, but I thought I would pass them along.