I don't really know what Greeneum's goal's, methods etc. are.  We spoke with Assaf a few weeks back and he wasn't comfortable releasing information without an NDA. 

We can't sign an NDA as it opens one up to risk related to other projects etc. in the future known and unknown.  This is a similar stance to the one taken by VC's.  As such I can't comment on Greeneum. 

Nick

To paraphrase monty python not quite dead... I was on phone with CEO of one of the world's largest solar generator's on Sunday. $11b/revenue power company. He wants to introduce us to one of world's most important renewable IGO's. We are moving along with development on new wallets supporting Segwit/ Bitcore 0.15. Hiring part time BA/tech project lead and still chipping away at one of the world's largest solar monitoring platforms for integration.  

Nick

Will write to exchange:  https://yobit.net/en/trade/SOLAR/BTC

https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/yobit/

its on the exchange but not on coinmarketcap.

Nick

Please note the solarcoin foundation makes no claim to future trading price or fungability of the solarcoin reward or size of the group of future participants in the Solarcoin reward program.  

The journalist was taking the math out of context. The solarcoin foundation strives to incent solar energy for the next 40 years increase the size of the participating claimants and believes this could increase the potential value of the reward due to emerging network effects but makes no guarantee implicit or explicit in regards to future price of the reward.  Value may be a function of participants while price is a combination of factors including speculative dynamics which are beyond the control or ability to predict of any group or entity.  The Solarcoin foundation does not endorse or encourage the speculative purchase of Solarcoin reward tokens.

Solarcoin is not a securities offering under the 1933 securities act and should not be considered as such. Solarcoin is a granted as a reward given away freely to verified producers of solar energy at the rate of 1 MWh per 1 SLR. The award of solarcoin is at the discretion of the Solarcoin foundation.

No future award, price, redemption for solarcoin, traded value, tradeability, fungability or other value is implied or guaranteed by the Solarcoin foundation. Solarcoin software is an open source, open protocol provided on an at will and at risk basis with no implied or expected levels of quality or service. Users should consider use of any such software, tokens or related services etc. as emerging technology which may contain bugs or be at risk.  This is true of most all blockchain protocols, products and services.

At the interface level of the QT wallet not much.  Structurally under the hood we get chain pruning (significantly reduce) the size of the Chain important for the IOT community etc. 

A list of the improvements is here: Most are stability and security related.  Benefits can be found here: https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/

1st prize is being matched with SLR 10,000 from the foundation as well.

V0.12 not a requirement to upgrade.  They are independent.

Some have suggested upgrade to v0.14.

There is a  §5,000k SLR bounty fix the site. at $0.23=$1,150  JZA is working on it. Has been for awhile. If you want to help him out.  Go to telegram or slack and sign up.  We want to get better.

there is a  §25,000* bounty to upgrade the bitcoin core in solarcoin wallet to Version 0.12.

* §10,000 from Solarcoin Foundation and  §15,000 from Lykke streams.  Lykke will post soon.

nice explanation of the platform, strategy etc. at Lykke.  https://medium.com/@pullnews/the-lykke-platform-9bc2b7785da2

for those interested, there is a channel on solarcoin-group slack for exploring methods and approaches for securing the generator pool of solarcoins.

themeco.  dynamic additions were considered an option, but this creates an open ended printing press and fuzzy goal. The technology wasn't around in 2013-2014 for this approach.  Proof of stake was still in its infancy.  It also helps to focus on a goal so the large pre-mine focuses on the near term 40 year estimate of production.  We are watching and extremely open to suggestions for algorithmically securing coins and actively exploring options as various technologies emerge and as the community evolves globally.  The goal is to hand distribution and verification over to an algorithmic/community solution. ideally things like Boardroom and smart contract mix emerge as mature solutions with a broad community performing cross checks.  http://boardroom.to/

Congratulations!!! SolarChange on First prize at the Blockchain Oscars in Munich. 

http://events.cointelegraph.com/start-up-competition/

If interested, it is possible to plug in a raspberrypi to track and post your solar energy production to the solarcoin blockchain. Will use 3-4 watts. You can also mint (POST) Solarcoin using the same raspberry pi as a full node.  more info on www.electricchain.org There is also a solarcoin telegram channel which is pretty active.

https://github.com/Scalextrix/SolarCoin-Raspberry-Pi-Node

Just a reminder if you want to dig in and see what is going on with the solarcoin community:

There are 270 people on the solarcoin-group slack   https://solarcoin.org/en/solarcoin-forum/
There are over 267  on the electricchain slack http://www.electricchain.org/electricchain/community/
There are 88 members on the solarcoin telegram channel doing super cool stuff with raspberry pi etc.

congratulations Global SolarChange!  https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-oscar-startup-competition-announces-six-finalists

any EU policy wonks out there?

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&reference=PE-601.075&format=PDF&language=EN&secondRef=02

"Stresses that the current emergence of currency competition between national currencies and private virtual currencies could benefit innovation and price stability, Stresses that as long as Blockchain can work as an infrastructure and basis for Fintech development, Commission should encourage the expansion of Blockchain platforms in order to create inclusivity and synergies for FinTech firms and hubs, similar to the platforms that bigger financial intermediaries create for inter-banking clearing operations;

Welcomes that very important initiatives that use the capabilities provided by FinTech and Blockchain platforms (e.g. Solar-coin) to create incentives for environmentally responsible energy use and behaviour, as well as research that attempts to reduce the environmental cost of bitcoin-mining and related activities;….

"  to be voted in april   thoughts on how to support / report this and what the full body of the resolution means.

http://www.electricchain.org/ekwateur-shakes-the-old-world-of-energy-suppliers/  Blockchain first. Solarcoin can now directly buy electricity in France. 

www.copay.io for solarcoin is under way....    https://gist.github.com/bitspill/94ad8082df17fd0e0555e14235eb3ba6

https://github.com/bitspill/solarcoin/tree/ZeroMQ

According to the lead dev target beta release is 2-3 weeks out.

solarcoin on telegram has some serious raspberrypi guys at work.  Now 78 people strong.  solarcoin-group slack has 219 people. electricchain slack (very IOT) has 253 solarcoin, solar energy and IOT folks. 

Also another question:  Vericoin is showing out of sync blocks in the explorer: i.e. block height is out of sync with block time in the Raw TX record.  Can anyone advise.  Here is an out of sync block example:  https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vrc/block.dws?1609671.htm

thanks.