I rarely buy anything. Though Pex peppers may pique my interest. There's just not a load of variety, but that's the nature of this emerging technology.

That can happen easily and there's many paths it can take, some are faster than others. And some are slower, but more stable.

Just a milestone.

Just seemed fitting.

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/slr/block.dws?1000000.htm

I'd say it's getting traction. The year end review was well written and highlights the shift in strategy in the technology. Things have changed for the better and they continue to improve. We've gone from a scrypt 100 SLR block reward to a well written PoST implementation by the skilled Vericoin devs (Thank you Steve!), which is right inline with the philosophy behind the Solarcoin mission, carbon friendly and with that a lower block reward to fix the inflation issue and help make claims more attractive. There's now technology discussion about changing the claimants premine to a generation algo and securing it with smart contract technology. Two websites are now online and processing claims for Solarcoin generation, both (I think both) of which are also staking wallets for claimants. The devs have always been accessible and open to new ideas on how to improve the technology.

It's a good time to be involved with Solarcoin. The idea alone of creating another much needed feed in tariff for solar energy is a great one. I loved the idea from the start. That was the original intent, but it's possible this coins technology and management might take it to a higher level in the future by using Solarcoin to sell and buy energy within a smart solar grid, increasing utility even further, not even to mention the idea of using the coins claims as a scientific tool to track solar radiation at least in the beginning on a quarterly scale, and possibly near real time in the future as the smart contract technology becomes implemented.

Yeah, I'm a bit excited about the future.

Thank you Nick.

I went in with a hex editor and took a look at the blockchain. I was rather shocked at the simplicity. Does anyone know how the transaction ID is encoded in the chain itself? Is it standard Bitcoin method? If so I'll just look up the bitcoin blockchain documentation. I'm fairly certain I can bang out some ms basic and get an idea of what I want to do with the data. The idea is to simply write something like blockchain.info, but with added lat/long data mapping for scientific purposes in such a way you can simply download the needed data in comma separated format.

That guy above you, Nick Gogerty is one.

Oh that could be a problem. It's possible it can be compiled from source, at least a more direct path.

There's an elegance to Solarcoin that Bitcoin can't cover. At least now that it's carbon friendly, and designed to plug right into the sun. I'd love to see within my lifetime a network of scientific instruments measuring solar radiation across the globe and people benefiting from doing it. I want to write some software that will scan the blockchain for claimants, and make the data searchable. As well as track the chain like a typical tracker. I need to learn some new programming languages.

Just to be more specific, it's 10 dollars more for the 2 gig model, but I think even the 512k version might be able to stake effectively in a linux environment. I am really considering plunking down the whole 22 dollars to get my name on the march list.

So here's a 15 dollar solution. It's a 64 bit ARM mini computer like the pi, but armed with a quad-core ARM A53 64-bit processor. It can hold as much as 2 gigabytes of ram, and has all the standard pi like features. They've collected far beyond what they needed for the kickstarter, and if this little bad boy makes it into full production soon, we can have a 15 dollar linux staking wallet right out of the box without the need to recompile the wallet software.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-board-super-comput

Take a look at Bleutrade, I know the volume is tiny.

https://bleutrade.com/exchange/SLR/BTC

Is there information out there on how to parse the solarcoin blockchain?

Someone just gobbled up 50k SLR on Bittrex.

It's all about relationships. The nature of value is just that. Value derives through networking, building relationships, and incorporating useful functions within the ecosystem. This promotes strength and resilience.

Well that's even better. We're watching the evolution of crypto currency unfold. This is exciting.

That prohashing article was very insightful. It's quite obvious in the internet of things, having a rigid system no longer works. Everything on the internet evolves with time, either getting more efficient or fixing problems that the old software can't cope with anymore. Bitcoin is no exception. It is after all the "next killer app" of the internet, but like email it can and may well be replaced with the next best thing, or things.

Drip 1 does sound intriguing. It would more or less squash peoples fears about the premine since it wouldn't be there anymore, but then there's always people you can't please. Would it keep some people happy all of the time? Yes. That's really all you can ask for.

That's impressive. I'm sure as technology gets more efficient costs will come down a bit, but it's impossible to catch up with cpu driven technology which gets more and more efficient every year, and already uses much less energy.