[ANN][SLR] SolarCoin - PoW reward for solar energy | the GREEN KING of Crypto

[themeco]

Hey,

I've been a long time Solarcoin fan and have been mining away for a fair while now. I work as a professional 3D designer generally specialising in visualisations and promotional videos. You can see some of my work here -http://www.kurodragon.com/showcase/

I was wondering if there was any need for any 3D work to help promote Solarcoin? I've got a lot of faith in this coin but feel that it doesn't really get the attention it deserves. I'm generally pretty busy, but I would be happy to take some of my free time to try and help boost Solarcoins image or help people understand it's mission more clearly.

Like most here I'm in it for the long haul hoping to make a nice profit while supporting a good cause. If there's any interest let me know

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[Epiphany]

Hey,

I've been a long time Solarcoin fan and have been mining away for a fair while now. I work as a professional 3D designer generally specialising in visualisations and promotional videos. You can see some of my work here -http://www.kurodragon.com/showcase/

I was wondering if there was any need for any 3D work to help promote Solarcoin? I've got a lot of faith in this coin but feel that it doesn't really get the attention it deserves. I'm generally pretty busy, but I would be happy to take some of my free time to try and help boost Solarcoins image or help people understand it's mission more clearly.

Like most here I'm in it for the long haul hoping to make a nice profit while supporting a good cause. If there's any interest let me know

OMG... That is some fantastic work there!!! I wish I had some skills like that.  I don't think anyone would have a problem with you putting those skills to work by creating something about SolarCoin. The nice thing about cryptocurrency in general is that it is owned by all of us, we don't necessarily need permission from the "company" to do things to promote it. We are all in this together and supporting each others efforts benefits us all.

[freebird]

Hey,

I've been a long time Solarcoin fan and have been mining away for a fair while now. I work as a professional 3D designer generally specialising in visualisations and promotional videos. You can see some of my work here -http://www.kurodragon.com/showcase/

I was wondering if there was any need for any 3D work to help promote Solarcoin? I've got a lot of faith in this coin but feel that it doesn't really get the attention it deserves. I'm generally pretty busy, but I would be happy to take some of my free time to try and help boost Solarcoins image or help people understand it's mission more clearly.

Like most here I'm in it for the long haul hoping to make a nice profit while supporting a good cause. If there's any interest let me know

OMG... That is some fantastic work there!!! I wish I had some skills like that.  I don't think anyone would have a problem with you putting those skills to work by creating something about SolarCoin. The nice thing about cryptocurrency in general is that it is owned by all of us, we don't necessarily need permission from the "company" to do things to promote it. We are all in this together and supporting each others efforts benefits us all.

+1

Also want to add that another SLR supporter and I put together a script for an educational/promotional video a few months ago but we didn't have any help on the graphics aspect and neither of us are graphics people, so we didn't finish that project. I did condense down the script to under 5 minutes, and if somebody is willing to add graphics to it using PowToon or other business animation software, we would very much appreciate your help!

themeco, please send me a PM if you're interested to talk more about this. Thanks. 

[LuckyKey]

Point your miners back @ solarcoin…difficulty approaching single digits 

[LuckyKey]

Point your miners back @ solarcoin…difficulty approaching single digits 

Short lived : Net Hash = 5,077.61 MH/s   …   difficulty = 70+ 

?!?!?!

[seerhaad]

Since the ultimate goal is PoS, why favor Option 1 over Option 3?

I vote Option 3, unless for some reason people think Option 1 would lead to a larger price rise.

Option 1 or 1B would produce a couple million fewer coins into circulation, so the price might rise a bit faster and higher. But I don't think it would be a big difference. We might have 33 million coins in circulation when we switch to PoS instead of 35 million, something like that. About 5-10% fewer coins.

Option 3 might give us a somewhat better chance of persuading pools to switch to the fork. But I don't know enough about how pools operate to have an informed opinion about those prospects. Anyone want to weigh in that?

Instead of persuading pools, why don't we setup our own Solarcoin pool with 0 pool fee ? It cant be so hard. If there someone experienced about pool setup, I can provide a server on azure.

I assume you mean for the purposes of forking the coin successfully once the algorithm is done?

Yes exactly.

We can start trying build a pool fot the current algorithm and when the new one is ready, replace it.

Finally I managed to setup a Solarcoin Pool  

I am mining there now and testing block finds and payments. This pool is mostly for learning purposes. When the new source code available, I will update it. If the big pools refuses to upgrade, we can use this pool. If needed, I can give administrator user and passwords to the Solarcoin Board.

It uses a medium size server with 2 cores and 3.5GB ram. I can easily upgrade server later.

http://slrpool.cloudapp.net/MPOS/public/index.php

Is this pool still working? If so, should we use it as a place where our community of miners can mine the fork when it's ready?

Sorry for late answer.

The pool is closed for now, because nobody mined except me  I can prepare a new pool when the fork is ready or if developer is experienced about pool setup, I can give server credentials.

[vipgelsi]

Seerhaad thanks.

[corather]

Since the ultimate goal is PoS, why favor Option 1 over Option 3?

I vote Option 3, unless for some reason people think Option 1 would lead to a larger price rise.

Option 1 or 1B would produce a couple million fewer coins into circulation, so the price might rise a bit faster and higher. But I don't think it would be a big difference. We might have 33 million coins in circulation when we switch to PoS instead of 35 million, something like that. About 5-10% fewer coins.

Option 3 might give us a somewhat better chance of persuading pools to switch to the fork. But I don't know enough about how pools operate to have an informed opinion about those prospects. Anyone want to weigh in that?

Instead of persuading pools, why don't we setup our own Solarcoin pool with 0 pool fee ? It cant be so hard. If there someone experienced about pool setup, I can provide a server on azure.

I assume you mean for the purposes of forking the coin successfully once the algorithm is done?

Yes exactly.

We can start trying build a pool fot the current algorithm and when the new one is ready, replace it.

Finally I managed to setup a Solarcoin Pool  

I am mining there now and testing block finds and payments. This pool is mostly for learning purposes. When the new source code available, I will update it. If the big pools refuses to upgrade, we can use this pool. If needed, I can give administrator user and passwords to the Solarcoin Board.

It uses a medium size server with 2 cores and 3.5GB ram. I can easily upgrade server later.

http://slrpool.cloudapp.net/MPOS/public/index.php

Is this pool still working? If so, should we use it as a place where our community of miners can mine the fork when it's ready?

Sorry for late answer.

The pool is closed for now, because nobody mined except me  I can prepare a new pool when the fork is ready or if developer is experienced about pool setup, I can give server credentials.

I wanted to give it a shot but I couldn't get passed your pools security. I never got the email.

[freebird]

The pool is closed for now, because nobody mined except me   I can prepare a new pool when the fork is ready or if developer is experienced about pool setup, I can give server credentials.

Thanks. I'll let you know if the team decides to do this. We're going to start by reaching out to the existing pools and see if they're willing to switch to the fork. I'll post another update as soon as I know anything definitive.

[seerhaad]

Since the ultimate goal is PoS, why favor Option 1 over Option 3?

I vote Option 3, unless for some reason people think Option 1 would lead to a larger price rise.

Option 1 or 1B would produce a couple million fewer coins into circulation, so the price might rise a bit faster and higher. But I don't think it would be a big difference. We might have 33 million coins in circulation when we switch to PoS instead of 35 million, something like that. About 5-10% fewer coins.

Option 3 might give us a somewhat better chance of persuading pools to switch to the fork. But I don't know enough about how pools operate to have an informed opinion about those prospects. Anyone want to weigh in that?

Instead of persuading pools, why don't we setup our own Solarcoin pool with 0 pool fee ? It cant be so hard. If there someone experienced about pool setup, I can provide a server on azure.

I assume you mean for the purposes of forking the coin successfully once the algorithm is done?

Yes exactly.

We can start trying build a pool fot the current algorithm and when the new one is ready, replace it.

Finally I managed to setup a Solarcoin Pool  

I am mining there now and testing block finds and payments. This pool is mostly for learning purposes. When the new source code available, I will update it. If the big pools refuses to upgrade, we can use this pool. If needed, I can give administrator user and passwords to the Solarcoin Board.

It uses a medium size server with 2 cores and 3.5GB ram. I can easily upgrade server later.

http://slrpool.cloudapp.net/MPOS/public/index.php

Is this pool still working? If so, should we use it as a place where our community of miners can mine the fork when it's ready?

Sorry for late answer.

The pool is closed for now, because nobody mined except me  I can prepare a new pool when the fork is ready or if developer is experienced about pool setup, I can give server credentials.

I wanted to give it a shot but I couldn't get passed your pools security. I never got the email.

As I said earlier, I dont have a professional email service. I tried it for Gmail and Yahoo and It worked fined. Maybe you should check your spam folder.

[seerhaad]

The pool is closed for now, because nobody mined except me   I can prepare a new pool when the fork is ready or if developer is experienced about pool setup, I can give server credentials.

Thanks. I'll let you know if the team decides to do this. We're going to start by reaching out to the existing pools and see if they're willing to switch to the fork. I'll post another update as soon as I know anything definitive.

You are welcome 

As you know I am not a professional pool owner and just trying to help Solarcoin community. I learned how to setup a MPOS pool and Stratum server by reading and trying. If existing pools refuses to switch, I will do my best to help 

[karlb187]

just saw this coin....how does the solar power thing pay in solarcoins?

Might buy into this if I like the details. 

[freebird]

just saw this coin....how does the solar power thing pay in solarcoins?

Might buy into this if I like the details. 

Hi, thanks for your interest in SolarCoin. Our currency is issued as grants to solar electricity generators at a rate of 1 SLR per Megawatt-hour. The purpose is to encourage more people and businesses to switch to solar power by providing a financial incentive. We have enough SLR held in reserve to provide these grants for the next 40 years, according to the expected rate of growth of solar energy production around the world. We're planning to put the reserve currency under contract as an automated granting system using Ethereum, Black Halo, or some similar blockchain-based technology.

You picked a great time to buy, if you do decide to invest. We've been issuing SLR via mining, as a proof-of-work cryptocurrency, since January. About 30 million SLR have been created this way, with steady trading on exchanges. But the mining phase is about to end and we're going to switch to proof-of-stake with a 1% annual inflation rate as interest for staking your wallet. Currently, about 1,000,000 SLR are created per week via the mining system. After we switch to PoS, less than 6,000 SLR are expected to be created per week via minting in PoS wallets.

We plan to switch from PoW to PoS in about a month from now. In preparation for that, we will be gradually reducing the PoW block reward over the next few weeks. SolarCoins are soon to become very scarce, unless you are eligible to claim them by generating solar energy. This is the intention: to make SolarCoin a meaningful subsidy program to encourage more people to go solar, which will reduce fossil fuel emissions and help the environment. There is a large target audience and industry for this currency, so we expect interest and support, investors, claimants, users and holders to grow and grow over time.

Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have. 

[freebird]

Just to let everyone know, our intention is to do fork #1 to begin the block reward reduction at block 300,000. This block is expected to be reached sometime early next week. I have received confirmation from the developer that this is the plan. I still need to make sure the pools are okay with this, and I'll post another update as soon as I find out what they say.

[corather]

As I said earlier, I dont have a professional email service. I tried it for Gmail and Yahoo and It worked fined. Maybe you should check your spam folder.

Yes you did, and I did check, wasn't in there. I could try again with a gmail account. Or yahoo, I have one those those also. If you decide to open the pool again, toss the details out and I'll throw my little 5 MH/s at it.

[vipgelsi]

Just to let everyone know, our intention is to do fork #1 to begin the block reward reduction at block 300,000. This block is expected to be reached sometime early next week. I have received confirmation from the developer that this is the plan. I still need to make sure the pools are okay with this, and I'll post another update as soon as I find out what they say.

Anyway we could start the block reduction as soon as the scrypt is ready asap. Instead of waiting for 300k

faster we do it less coins.

[freebird]

Just to let everyone know, our intention is to do fork #1 to begin the block reward reduction at block 300,000. This block is expected to be reached sometime early next week. I have received confirmation from the developer that this is the plan. I still need to make sure the pools are okay with this, and I'll post another update as soon as I find out what they say.

Anyway we could start the block reduction as soon as the scrypt is ready asap. Instead of waiting for 300k

faster we do it less coins.

We're going to do it at 300k because we need to make sure everyone knows about it and has time to prepare. 300k is coming in about a week from now. That's not long. Besides, the new code is already being tested as we speak.

This is really going to happen! Very soon. Block 300,000. Next week.

[vipgelsi]

Makes sense thanks again freebird.

[vipgelsi]

Hey freebird was the solarcoin minutes for august ever posted?

[freebird]

Hey freebird was the solarcoin minutes for august ever posted?

No, we didn't hold a teleconference Board meeting this month. We've been making decisions by email among the Board since the July meeting.

The three things we decided to focus on for now are:
1. implementing the block reward reduction -- will occur next week.
2. implementing the new generator claims process based on 15% nameplate capacity -- basically done and will be announced very soon.
3. implementing the switch to PoS -- we'll be working hard on this in September.

After those things are done, we should be able to get back to a more normal routine of holding meetings.