The only thing that keeps me from investing in this coin is the shitload of coins that is called 'total supply'. 98B? Really? Can someone give me 1 good reason why to buy? Price will keep going down when they release all the coins right?
Coins are released over time with claims, there's a 40 year timetable that we're about 3 years in right now.
The increase of circulation of coin is tied to increase of claimants. Growing network is source of value. There are people who called Solarcoin SCAM 3 years ago for the amount for premine. Do your own research.
...plus to further emphasize and clarify, that an increase of claimants = increase in value, thus as more coins are added to circulation, then the value of this coin actually increases (due to increasing number of users). This is vastly different than with bitcoin or litecoin because with these coins, it only takes a single user to mine/release ALL of the coins into circulation. But with solarcoin, the coins will only be substantially released when there is a substantial increase in the number of users, thus value inherently increases along with the increasing circulation. In other words, the only way we will ever see 98 billion SLR actually in circulation is if there are more users of Solarcoin then there are current users of bitcoin. And can you imagine what the SLR price might be by that point?