IMJim
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August 06, 2014, 03:41:14 AM |
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I started mining Litecoin back when it was actually profitable. Then I switched to feathercoin, love the community there, if anyone is interested in an amazing crypto community feathercoin is awesome! But then I started looking for alternatives and I ran across solarcoin based on a friends recommendation. I started mining it with my three 7950 radeon MSI twin frozr cards (yeah I'm old school haha), and kept mining them when the difficulty was under 1. Man I was getting thousands of coins a day! I sold a few of them, and I also traded a few to increase my holdings a little. I managed to pick up about 27 MH of cloud hashing power and a mined a few with that also for a bit, but the software GAW was using wasn't right and they didn't perform very well. There was a short period when I wasn't able to mine some SLR and I felt kind of odd about that so I picked up a GAW Fury and started hashing away again. I now have two Fury's on miningpoolhub pulling between 1.9 and 4.5 MH/s. But I've already accumulated around 200k coins, 150k of which are in cold storage until the sun burns out to help with inflation issues this coin is suffering.
And that's my solarcoin mining story. The community story is quite amazing also. Met some smart people, so smart I feel like a frog swimming amongst dolphins. What I've learning in the last 2 months about the environmental issues just being aware of solarcoins mission has both inspired me and made me ill. This coin HAS to succeed. Solar must be a major component of our power requirements in order to reverse environmental damage caused by a lack of foresight and technological barriers which now have been tackled. Not saying solar won't without solarcoin, it very well has in the last decade but solarcoin does fill a market void that has been available to other sources of energy for decades. It's the right technology, and right time for it.
So do you have a solar system bud? Are you doing your part.......jk:-) Funny, it wasn't really related to solar coin but I my wife and I got solar put on our house a few months ago.......love it! Also helped my mom buy her retirement house here recently, was planning on investing some of her retirement funds into a solar system for her house. Searched for a home for her for several months and was having a hard time finding the right home for her, put in a few bids during this time that we lost, was getting frustrating as hell. Then my oldest sister winds up in the hospital and for the nest week were being told there was no chance she was going to survive! Needless to say this put the home search to a stop. She was in the hospital for a few weeks but came back like nothing short of a miracle. It was decided among the family that she would now be moving in with my mother on a permanent basis. That day we all made that decision, my mom and I went back on the house hunt. We found a house that very day that was absolutely PERFECT and the owners were there without their Realtor which gave me a chance to get personal with the owners. The next day we had an offer in and they accepted, that deal went through. It also came with a fairly and BRAND NEW solar system that was NOT reflected in the price of the home. She basically got a $25k system for free with the house. Having solar now, neither of know how we ever went without it! It is so cool to run our AC units without worrying about HUGE electrical bills:-) |
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corather
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August 06, 2014, 03:53:55 AM |
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I don't have solar! But I do hope to have it someday. I don't have the income or the ability right now to get it. I'm happy things worked out well for the family. I've been ill lately too and I'm starting to make a comeback. I know what you guys went through with that.
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IMJim
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August 06, 2014, 05:37:06 AM |
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Yeah we didn't really have the money either, fortunately my wonderful mother taught me the importance of good credit while I was very young. Have been building strong credit profiles for me and the wife since we were married 20 years ago. We financed a 100% of our system, we were averaging around $250 in electrical costs........our solar system produces 125% of our previous 7 years average per year. Was able to get a REALLY good loan for our system, our loan is now $240 a month and our electrical pretty much zero:-)
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niktitan132
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August 06, 2014, 09:45:27 AM |
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This coin has more potential.Solarcoin should make some big advertising on a-ads.com,adbit.co or even through Thisweekscoin on twitter.  |
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seerhaad
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August 06, 2014, 11:12:30 AM |
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I have 25 of them  |
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seerhaad
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August 06, 2014, 11:51:41 AM |
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I have 25 of them How is my new SLR address, I have found it a few minutes ago on solarcoinwallet.com Efes is my favourite beer in Turkey and the address is : 8KKe8bmMXzpk1aiy9XDvMpqwqqfJTq Efes  It is so much fun to search meaningfull addresses on solarcoinwallet.com |
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LuckyKey
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August 06, 2014, 03:33:21 PM |
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CryptoPoolMining showing 44 difficulty, 3.2 GH/s ?!?!
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vipgelsi
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August 06, 2014, 08:52:58 PM |
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Solarcoin = sleeping giant
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passionsurf
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August 06, 2014, 09:13:04 PM |
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Its great to see the board so active today. I also remeber my first 10,000 solarcoins i was so happy lol Now myself and family have about 6% of the total outstanding solarcoins in cold storage  I'm pretty much the exact same (approx. 6%). lol I gave a bunch to my 2 teenage boys, and they (like me) are sitting tight on them for a long time to come As well, I'm another proud Canadian (Ottawa). Looks like there will not be any significant dumping of this coin because you guys have 12% and I have another 3% which will not be sold for a few years. The community all seem to be in this for the long run. And I have a little over 3%, which I'm holding ... and I want more, damnit! |
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Epiphany
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August 06, 2014, 09:18:50 PM |
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35.85533023
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Bitcoin: 17tzgWkXMBazch4koAhokMTcCtbc4TaYkE
Ether: 0xfe700f4aeec47e52eafad00f81977bb89738e0ae
SolarCoin: 8MDk963sEh7RCMo3y3st7hTzMs7FzSdWSx
Dogecoin: DEgdH6CFTLSEeVVPqfE18ySCQqDWmLxp33
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passionsurf
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August 06, 2014, 09:35:49 PM |
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35.85533023
yeah, crazy, it makes me want to sell my miner and just use the proceeds to buy coins instead, which I think I'll do. |
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passionsurf
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August 06, 2014, 09:37:28 PM |
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Come on dumpers!! Where did you all go?!?
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Epiphany
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August 06, 2014, 09:54:31 PM |
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Come on dumpers!! Where did you all go?!?
I just can't imagine a profit miner selling for anything less than 7-800 sats at a 20 difficulty... those bids are gonna have to come up if the difficulty keeps rising like this. |
Bitcoin: 17tzgWkXMBazch4koAhokMTcCtbc4TaYkE
Ether: 0xfe700f4aeec47e52eafad00f81977bb89738e0ae
SolarCoin: 8MDk963sEh7RCMo3y3st7hTzMs7FzSdWSx
Dogecoin: DEgdH6CFTLSEeVVPqfE18ySCQqDWmLxp33
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passionsurf
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August 06, 2014, 10:48:31 PM |
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Come on dumpers!! Where did you all go?!?
I just can't imagine a profit miner selling for anything less than 7-800 sats at a 20 difficulty... those bids are gonna have to come up if the difficulty keeps rising like this. I was thinking along those lines as well ... that is, until I check the coinwarz mining profitability (which I haven't looked at in a couple months). Profitability is awfully low across the board. |
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Epiphany
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August 06, 2014, 11:09:14 PM |
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Come on dumpers!! Where did you all go?!?
I just can't imagine a profit miner selling for anything less than 7-800 sats at a 20 difficulty... those bids are gonna have to come up if the difficulty keeps rising like this. I was thinking along those lines as well ... that is, until I check the coinwarz mining profitability (which I haven't looked at in a couple months). Profitability is awfully low across the board. I hadn't looked at that in a while either. |
Bitcoin: 17tzgWkXMBazch4koAhokMTcCtbc4TaYkE
Ether: 0xfe700f4aeec47e52eafad00f81977bb89738e0ae
SolarCoin: 8MDk963sEh7RCMo3y3st7hTzMs7FzSdWSx
Dogecoin: DEgdH6CFTLSEeVVPqfE18ySCQqDWmLxp33
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passionsurf
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August 07, 2014, 12:49:20 AM |
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Any idea when we will have the fork details set in stone?
I have no idea. I'm not privy to those discussions. I do get some related e-mails but I don't know any significant details that Eric hasn't already shared. I had lunch with Eric this past weekend and got to meet him. We had a fantastic brunch, yapped and chatted for 3 hours. Anyway, he is in communication with the developer we're using and is on top of the situation. Eric is very good at disseminating the details to us, so once things get nailed down, I expect we'll hear from him. I know who the developer is but I don't know if a firm timeline has been figured out yet other than "a few weeks" and that could mean anything I suppose. It seems that people are hesitant to buy at higher prices while the blockchain is still pumping out 144,000 SLR daily. |
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freebird
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August 07, 2014, 02:35:12 AM |
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It seems that people are hesitant to buy at higher prices while the blockchain is still pumping out 144,000 SLR daily.
Well, the price has doubled in less than a week. I wouldn't expect it to go up faster than that. It takes time for people to get used to a new price range. Maybe when the fork starts, we'll be above 1000 sat. Maybe a few weeks after that, we'll be several thousand sat. |
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