Ok, so I logged on to MintPal to cast my votes and they changed it!!! On the plus side, we are now showing at 23rd spot, up one. On the down side, it's just one vote an hour and it won't let me vote because it says I need more trade history. Does anyone know how much trade history you actually need to be able to vote???
They also increased the cost, 1 vote now costs 0.001 BTC. We'd need 16,365 votes to get to #1 will cost over 16 bitcoins but with the other changes, the cost hasn't really changed to buy your way in.
Still, I can't vote without a larger trade history. Does anyone know more about this?
Solarcoin is not going to make it to Mintpal until it gains much more popularity in the cryptoworld. I gave up voting on Mintpal a long time ago. I'm in it for the long haul. This coin is only a few months old, so there really is no hurry to get the price to skyrocket now. A long slow climb means more stability anyway, rather than a quick spike up to $1/share, which would be followed by a quick drop back down to $0.1/share.