Never seen volume this high on solar bittrex

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Thanks. All upgraded now over two days.

The question remains as to what to mine after SLR becomes unprofitable or ceases to be mineable. Mining something else and converting it to SLR when SLR has a bad day seems an option. Such activity on a wide scale would continue to support SLR by propping up its market. Digibyte seems a possibility as it can be mined using old SHA256 miners as well as Scrypt miners.
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/digibyte/
but as far as I can see one would have to go via Bitcoin to get to Solarcoin.

Any other ideas on this?

In the previous thread there was some discussion of doing something similar to the Blackcoin mining pools but for SLR. Let me go find it... But if I recall, you can mine anything and the pool converts it to SLR for you or something. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. Obviously it's something that would need to be set up if someone saw some value in it to do it.

EDIT: Found it! Sylph suggested it, here is the link to the comment and the discussion after: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/429119.msg8226490#msg8226490

Having just read it, it looks as though that idea was talked down as not being in the spirit of Solarcoin.

Obviously not enough. There was a lot of it. However it does not look as though it was implemented.

This one is a little different. As smart contract technology progresses, those contracts will have the keys to the vault.

I don't think that's the whole point of crypto. In fact, I think that aspect of crypto is much less important than the fact that crypto gives people the power to decide how money gets created.

Today, most currencies are created by banks when they make loans, mostly to wealthy people and big corporations. The money supply is created as a reward for being perceived as more likely to pay back a loan with interest to a bank.

Bitcoin came along and offered a new way to create a money supply, based on currency going to whoever has bigger and more powerful specialized computers, technical knowledge, and ability to afford lots of electricity to mine BTC. It took the power away from the banking system, which was an improvement, but it still does not incentivize anything good in the world.

SolarCoin is a currency that is distributed as a reward for doing something that benefits the planet: generating clean renewable solar energy. We plan to put the reserve currency under smart contract so that the granting process can be automated. Before that happens, it is being held securely by the people who launched this project.

We know these people's real names and you can read their resumes: Nick Gogerty and Joseph Zitoli. Both of them have held high positions in major companies in the finance industry. They are not average schmos; they have serious professional reputations. Each individual has to decide for themselves whether to trust that they will fulfill the plan to put the reserve of SolarCoin under smart contract so that it will no longer be held by the founders. Based on working with them on the SolarCoin project for over 6 months, I trust them to do so.

Yes, Ripple is also a centrally managed cryptocurrency. And it's currently the #3 crypto with a market cap of $132 million.

People in the digital currency space have strong feelings about the issue of trust vs. non-trust based models of money. This is a philosophical issue that will be argued for years to come. There are and will continue to be successful cryptocurrencies based on either model, and hybrids of the two.

SolarCoin, though trust-based right now, will ultimately become a hybrid model because the reserve currency will be put under smart contract and the granting to solar generators mostly automated. The goal we're striving for is for solar panels to have a built-in system that transmits information to the blockchain about how much electricity is being generated, and for the corresponding amount of SLR to be automatically sent into the wallet of the owner of each solar panel. There will only have to be minimal review by human beings in occasional cases for fraud prevention (e.g. software flags a solar panel that's claiming a ridiculously inaccurate amount of energy generated, and a human can review such a case and override automatic grants to that wallet).