I favor a more organic approach. Let Solarcoin find it's market niche.

It's a good time to buy SLR.

Check out the Solarcoin news page https://solarcoin.org/en/news/. There's a lot of silent work being done.

That's the bear market. I can't tell you what the future holds, but I can say I've seen this before. There are always periods of drought.

There hasn't been a wallet update in a bit, but that's getting attention. There are plenty of developments for Solarcoin, they just aren't focused on the wallet software, however there was a bounty for updating the wallet.

https://streams.lykke.com/Project/ProjectDetails/upgrade-the-solarcoin-from-bitcoin?utm_content=buffercfac7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#tab_Comments

I can run it from the command line in linux, but it's sloppy, at least on the versions I'm using. Having an option in software would make things much easier. In order for this kind of technology to be adopted more readily, it's better to keep things as simple as possible from the users perspective. In windows I can add the line on the shortcut, but in Ubuntu I'm having trouble.

*edit: Okay I found a workaround. I had to insert a launch icon on the desktop with the right parameters. I used "alacarte" to create the menu item, added the datadir command, and added the icon to the desktop. It now pulls the data from my chosen data directory. This is a pain in the rear though, but it works.

Since you're already working on the code, can you add a changeable data directory to make it easier for those who wish to run the wallet/vault on IoT devices?

It's what I'm doing, thanks anyway
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It's really for the best. Everyone has an opinion and it's not always in your best interest. The facts are out there in plain sight. I always visit Bitcointalk and look through the messages, as well as looking at the history of the project, and if there's other resources like reddit etc. I don't mean to be rude. I just find that you get the best data from just quietly browsing news sources. After a while you'll be able to spot good projects, and decide if you want to invest.

DYOR

It's been working fine for me. Been getting regular payouts. Maybe your payment address isn't right?

Does it open a folder? It's showing you where your keys are hiding. Copy/paste to your desired location.

Pays out all the time. Could be stuck. Does that occasionally.

Are there plans to update the linux wallet?

Doing some rough arithmetic about Solarcoins value, even at 10x growth, it would only hit a 70 million market cap. That wouldn't even put it in the top 50 which still seems undervalued.

Also consider if the foundation wants to grant 98 billion coins in a 40 year period, which we're already about 2-3 years in, that's roughly 2.5 billion coins a year. Is that possible? Probably not in the short term. I see a gradual curve of growth until the last few years where we may see exponential growth of claims, however I still think we'll fall short of the grant goal, just by looking at those figures. It's hard to give stuff away, and 98 billion "stuffs" is quite a challenge. If within the next 5 years or so the Solarcoin foundation can grant 7 million coins a year, that will double the coin supply in circulation and get the coins in the right hands. That's a more reasonable challenge that I think will have a huge impact on Solarcoin's value, not to mention subsidizing an additional 35 million MW/h of clean sustainable electricity! Until then, even with some crude mathematics it's easy to conclude the undervalued nature of Solarcoin right now.

We've already witnessed 100x growth from Solarcoins very bottom, conservatively if you look at the numbers on average from where the price generally stabilized a couple of years ago (at around 1200 satoshis) it's still 33x growth from a small number of grants and awareness.

That's the whole point. They don't buy them, they're granted for solar production.

It's enough to satisfy a 40 year participation rate.

When enough solar claimants participate.

Blocks are being generated but the pool isn't paying. Looks like our shares are safe though.

I did get a payment recently, but not for any new shares.

Drivers, operating system, and even strapping can make a huge difference on throughput as well. Especially with certain cards, sometimes an older driver works better, sometimes the newer one is best. I use linux for mining, and with my hardware I can only run certain versions of the operating systems, and only certain versions of the vid drivers are even compatible. For example claymore's miner recommends catalyst 15.12 for mining. I think I'm running that version, but I don't have much choice. With ubuntu anyway, it downloads the right driver from the repository and I don't know linux well enough to change it much. But even that is a trial and error thing sometimes.

I don't even want to get into custom kernels. There are mining farms out there running kernels that put anything us normals use to shame.

Every card is different. The hardware on each model is different so you'll get different results. My older 7950's can push out 23 MH/s (UBIQ) with a slight overclock. Ethereum is different due to the dag file size, as is exp. I get slightly more hash for exp than ethereum.