Somebody tell me if I am out of my mind or not :-)

I mentioned before about the possibility of getting the big PV companies to donate to the solarcoin initiative, and I fully believe that if we came up with an idea that would create value for solarcoin, that their investment would be given back to them 10 fold.  It would be nothing for the big boys to donate 1 million (plus?) annually…they have revenue in the billions and profits in the hundreds of millions.  It could potentially be an expense on the balance sheet too.

Let's, for the sake of argument, say they (combined) throw $5 million a year towards solarcoin (to start). Now let's say there's approx. 50 million solarcoins in distribution (by end of 2014, or just after?). That would provide $0.10 per solarcoin value to solarcoin holders (if everyone went through the claim process). The challenge then becomes, how do we get that $ back to real investors (solarcoin holders).  Then, I thought of the registry…or whatever the Foundation are calling the repository that exists for solarcoin claims (from solar energy production).

Solarcoin has something that other crypto currencies does not - a registry of Users/producers.  So then I thought, why not take it another level, and offer tracking of solarcoin holders, for the purpose of receiving the $ donated by the big manufacturers?  It's the exact opposite of some of the crazy stuff going on with other crypto coins (that push anonymity), where by some form of claim takes place based on the total solarcoins held by registered owners.  The blockchain can provide proof of ownership, by solarcoin wallet identifier, and $ could be actually delivered on a per coin basis. It might only be a slight expansion of the current claims repository, with a couple more fields,  to include a registration process for those with solarcoin wallets, with real addresses (to send the cheques). The confirmation may be performed in a similar fashion that paypal does when you register a bank account, where they deposit a small amount to confirm the access/identity of the User.  Each solarcoin registrant could be told to send a very small, but specific, amount of solarcoin, to confirm they are who they say they are (who owns the solarcoin wallet).  Again, blockchain could confirm the numbers.

To increase value, an annual per coin amount could be provided, based on how long the current solarcoin holder has held the coin, at the end of the year…like maybe a penny per coin for each month the current wallet owner has held their coins.  This concept would significantly raise the value of solarcoins, as the supply would be so small, with most people holding on to their coins for the annual return, and the demand would drive the price up way beyond the $0.10 annual per coin return.  It could bring on the multi-dollar value very quickly; thus making it a very good incentive for investors to produce solar energy; thus providing a bigger incentive for PV manufacturers and others (service companies, etc.) to donate more $ to the cause.  It could be a huge benefit, for a relatively small investment?

Let me know what you guys think of this idea….or if I am completely nuts!  lol

Yes, we are getting something. I made ROI . But many many many others did not , and if they are ponzi they have huge suply of btc to pay every week small parts of ur deposit . And if they shut down many people will lose huge.

Im not saying they are ponzi , but they can easily be one , and rly perfect setup from them it cant get better than this. Somebody deposit and u pay him every week from his money, for 5-6 months u pay him only with his money while in the mean time so many people deposit/buy more.

I would just like to see some proof like in what pool we are mining, what block we solved, what hardware we use. That is all.

The minutes from the Board Meeting last week have been posted to the wiki: http://wiki.solarcoin.org/index.php?title=SolarCoin_Foundation_Board_Meeting_Minutes:_June_3,_2014

Well, I got §2300. I should have just bought them...   Now I have to wait for 120 confirms to get them out. That could take weeks at this rate. Sigh...  

EDIT: Correction... At 10 minutes block times, I should get them in less than 24 hours. My math skills aren't so great today.  

I don't mine there, has anyone tried to contact them about this?

I agree. But is Cryptopoolmining actually offline? Because when you look through the Blocks on the block explorer, it is showing that blocks are being solved by cryptopoolmining. See here and just step back through some of the blocks, you'll see it on the transaction comment: http://184.73.159.72/b/12ngCJqXrq

Are the payments coming in? Does the pool website need to be refreshed or something?

What's this?
Summer sales?  

Gotta agree, dev working on coin.  Also, fully support all the work being done outside of the coin dev, to support the coin…that's why so manny people have invested in this coin.  There's just a few impatient ones posting here, venting…and under new aliases?!  Diff does needs to be adjusted, and looks like it is happening. I also have a dev background and fully know things need to be done right…not by some guy posting his own deisres/intention/code!  Not that people can't help, just should to be managed by the Foundation core, and with the required amount of DD and testing/management. Disagree that people in this forum have any control as to how it will proceed!  

Keep up the great work - everyone who's involved with this coin - it's much appreciated!

Fully believe the coin value can/will come...

No,

They were panic sellers because of hashrate and high estimated next difficulty.

Well mackattack is spot on..i believe a guy named sunuser basically wrote all the code a week ago including pos and posv!!! This justin guy is a joke..the community wants this to succeed more than the devs.  It seems that nick wants to set a twitter record instead of realizing how importnant the beginning of a coin is. They never go on to reasure we are working hard behind the scenes. If you guys think your the smartest people in the room, your wrong on this one...GO POSV NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

To play devil's advocate, what exactly is the point of Bitcoin, compared to other cryptocurrencies which are more technologically innovative and feature-rich (various competitors already), or which are trying to incentivize a positive activity for the planet (such as SolarCoin)?

Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, and it achieved great things, but it's already outdated, and it does not monetize any good cause or productive economic activity in the world. SolarCoin is trying to create a new monetary system in which clean, renewable, solar-generated electricity represents the money supply and in which generating such electricity entitles a person or business to receive grants of currency. That is a revolutionary idea and potentially world-changing. Bitcoin changed the world, and soon it will be SolarCoin's turn.

SolarCoin has maintained a relatively stable value at 0.5 to 1 cent over the past few months, and that's with hardly anyone in the cryptocurrency community supporting it yet. There is a constant appetite for SolarCoins that are being mined and dumped on the market -- and most of them are being bought by non-crypto people, i.e. long-term investors who will never sell below $1. These coins are literally being taken off the market. These long-term-minded investors just keep absorbing all the dumping by miners trying to make a quick buck who don't even stop to consider the potential of this currency. "Worthless" it may be, in the same way that Apple stock was worthless a few months after Steve Jobs founded the company.