Ycash

Intro Arrowchain has recently lost pretty much all major mining pool support. Now most miners would simply abandon their chain and go to something new, I’m going to show you a different path you can take. Solomining is a somewhat trivial thing to do, but if you support a blockchain by…

If you have Ycash deposited on an exchange, consider withdrawing it to a self-custody wallet by 2022–11–23 UTC 00:00 — November 19, 2022 (Last updated: November 23, 2022) Update: The 24-hour window has past. Moving Ycash or Wry back onto exchanges or back into liquidity pools will not affect your eligibility for the new project. A message from the Ycash Foundation New project; take custody to preserve potential eligibility

Recently, I’ve been working on a Julia package, BlockExplorer.jl. My idea for retrieving blockchain data with Julia initially started with ycash.jl but ycash.jl has one really big inconvenience. Both of these packages are dependant on a full blockchain node. With ycash.jl, the user runs the node locally to retrieve output…

You read the title correctly. You don’t need better glasses. You are not drunk. Nobody needs to pinch you because you are not dreaming. In more object oriented languages, we use classes. In Julia we use structs. In my last piece, I started a block explorer client that runs off…

When we use a crypto wallet, it gives us the illusion that the wallet actually holds our coins. This is actually not the case at all. …

Previously, we used the python-hdwallet package to generate a Bitcoin wallet. You can read more about that here. Today I’d like to do the same thing for Ycash to generate transparent wallets. If you look at the list of supported currencies in “cryptocurrencies.py” or the tickers listed in “symbols.py”, you…

There are two main types of consensus mechanisms in the blockchain space: POW (proof of work), and POS (proof of stake). Today I’d like to talk a bit about proof of work, and how it well… works. …

In Refactoring Part 2, I started work on a “safe_send()” function which will create and send raw YEC transactions. In both Ycash and Bitcoin, coins are denoted in “UTXOs” (unspent transaction outputs). You can think of each UTXO inside a wallet like you think of a paper bill inside of…

In the first portion of this project, we tweaked the path to ycash-cli, overloaded the “ycashcli()” function, added a testing file, and deleted a bunch of unnecessary code. Today, we’re going to delete even more code and fix the sending function. I’m beginning to really like this feeling… I’m going…