Quote from: nickgogerty on April 14, 2016, 01:31:27 AM

Quote from: Alao on April 13, 2016, 02:58:53 PM

Quote from: sunny-boy on April 13, 2016, 08:25:24 AM

Dear SolarCoin Community, Solar Change is happy to announce it has been selected by NexusSquared in Zurich to attend its Accelerator Program (StartupBootCamp):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-cohort-blockchain-startups-set-join-pilot-grassinger?trk=hb_ntf_MEGAPHONE_ARTICLE_POST

Can you post some information about Solar Change? How are you looking to use Solar Coin?

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

Thanks Nick exciting times ahead!!!