Global Solarchange is a SolarCoin affiliate which helps file claims for various countries.  Solcrypto work the same way in Asia out of its tokyo base.  Global Solarchange will launch a website in the coming weeks to make it easier for filing claims.  Global Solarchange is also reaching out to large developers in Europe and the US.

This should significantly increase the number of  solarcoin holders and grow the network.  The Global Solarchange team is based in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Barcelona.  They will announce with a new website soon.  When that site is up and running many claims requests on the Solarcoin.org site will be routed to them based on geography.

  The operating business model is as independant affiliates of the solarCoin foundation.  The referral program was first announced last year and the foundation looked around for country affiliate managers. Anyone can file a claim today at the solarcoin site and indicate a referral. The referring party gets the equivelant of 10% of the initial claim for sub 20KW going back to 2010 and 5% of the 1st year claim for over 20KW facilities.  This comes from the genesis pool.  Example a 1MW farm in operation since 2010 would likely have generated 7,800MW-§7,800 SLR. The referrer would get 5% of the first year or §65 SLR.  If you sign up solar city, sun edison's clients or sunpower.....well thats a lot of solarcoin up for grabs.

Global SolarChange has an exclusive for claims processing over multiple countries and is intending to white label its platform to sub-affiliates who can facilitate claims processing at the local (country/regional) levels.  This is being done in a longer term effort to distribute the claim verification and processing process.  Ideally it is totally decentralized and run by the community as the community grows.  Target is 500k-1m claimants in 5-7 years.  This years target is 50k. which would mean estimated network growth of 100x.  This can only be achieved by partnering with developers and monitoring companies who aggregate claims and end users communication.  Global SolarChange and Solcrypto are in talks with developers ranging from mom and pop to multi-billion dollar firms.  This all takes time, but should prove very interesting for the project over the coming years.

If you know someone who want's to run a country or territory exclusive let us know and we can discuss or forward you to the correct affiliate for a sub-affiliate program.  There is an SLA (service level agreement) that needs to be met to keep the exclusivity, this include transparency anti-fraud, legal and regulatary adherence in the respective geographies and KYC know your customer requirements.

The foundation is working to decentralize and automate anti-fraud, claims processing etc. as much to the edges of the network as possible and where and whenever possible and to put things into smart contracts and/or DAO's over time.

Nick

Agree here with Coather, I rescanned the wallet and it fixed.

Hi all, just an amazing thing happened to us. We are now earning more interest on our SolarCoin's per year (in total $) than we are from our traditional bank accounts.
Quite amazing and glad to be a part of the project earning interest from the sun. I really do believe that SolarCoin is a significant step forward for humans on planet Earth.
Cheers, lfloorwalker.

not hard to beat the tradtitional banking system. But good observation

calling all UX/UI experts global SolarChange http://www.solarchange.co/ would like some support on the UI/UX.

They are putting together an automated claiming engine on the back-end....but the UI, well it can be lifted a bit.

 Everything is up for grabs, flow UI, UX, logo...

If you know someone interested in helping out or who would like to help with a piece of it. get in touch with asafbenor@gmail.com

These are reasons why Merchants WON'T accept SolarCoin. BitCoin is not Green and in order to get out of the market the merchants have to take risks with it in order to give the appearance of being Green with SolarCoin. These risks could gain them money but they can also get stuck at percentages well above the normal fees for Visa or be forced to wait. So Merchants must sell to BitCoin to get their costs of goods back. This means they also have to give their identity and banking information to an Exchange under KYC-AML just to achieve liquidity. They also risk that the exchange may hack itself and take the customers funds. Questionable security along with market maneuvering just to accept a coin that people would have to take their FIAT that they could already hand the merchant and yet they go buy BitCoin, to then go buy SolarCoin, and then give it to the Merchant who must go Sell to BitCoin and then Sell to FIAT. Not many Merchants would put themselves through the wringer just to use a coin, and if they were going to accept Crypto they could just accept BitCoin since they have to get back to that anyways.

If SolarCoin was used outside of BitCoin it could be green and be adopted, instead it is now SolarCoin supporting and sustaining BitCoin usage. Another upside would be that there are not many people using SolarCoin so Merchant exposure would be very small. This may be the only reason to accept it and normally a Merchant who would agree to use SolarCoin would already be accepting BitCoin and have the channel setup for usage. So the 100,000 BitCoin merchants should be targeted as merchants and let the SolarCoin POW sell off for these merchants products commence!

From what I see all of the "Dumps" haven't hurt us really. That sell wall at .00007 was taken out and it hasn't been back for a couple of days now. I do notice that the bids are real thin until you get to the. 0001 range.  The thing to pay attention to is that we have been reaching having a steady bottom and it is getting higher and higher everyday. I think we have strong hands and a couple of market manipulators. They will get tried eventually especially we get on another exchange. Like it or now SLR is very centralized and a good environment for bots. That is what brings traders who help with liquidity.

It says SolarCoin can suspend a Claim for any reason at any time? I guess there is no smart contract to detect fraud yet...

Merchants build it into the costs of goods. The grants are free, it may cost a little more to buy something with SLR, but it's found money, everyone wins. Does Bitcoin do that? No, you have to buy it in order to spend it.