Good news.  This is exactly what we want to see at this stage is the acceptance cycle.   This will start getting those coins held in trust working. 

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The number of wallets staking has jumped by > 40% also....

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AFAIK (but I haven't had enough motivation to look at the code that closely) what happens is that if your wallet is offline for a period your coins 'recover' from being staked and 'freshen', if you will.  When the wallet gets back online, all those 'fresh' coins are valid for staking.  So until all those 'fresh' coins have their moment in the sun (stake pool) - and generate staking rewards - you get a one time boost.  Once a coin has been staked, it then goes back in the pot to be freshened again.  The only thing that makes this 'freshening' happen is time. 

If you are really bored and have some free time from watching paint dry, grass grow etc, you can see this happening on the 'staked' line of the wallet home page.  This is also apparent if you bring up a second copy of the wallet with a 'old/unused for a time' copy of the wallet.dat.  There is a surge in POS rewards that are never actually validated (and eventually disappear) as the extra copy generates rewards from what it thinks are 'fresh' coins.  The blockchain knows better though and rejects them as duplicates?.  This is a 'nice' (in the proper sense) piece of code in the wallet core.  It is also the reason that it doesn't help running a second copy of the same wallet.

That is my understanding at least.  If anyone has a better explaination I would be keen to read it.   


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Concur in full.  

Up to $2 this morning and every sign of some stability.  A good amount of movement, so some wallets are unloading, but that is a good thing when done with moderation.

SLR is a thin market and can be easily ramped both ways.  However having more wallets is definitely a good thing, so this increased activity with a relentless ramp up is as good as it gets.  However, beware the Ides of Hubris (to mortally mangle a metaphor).

Enjoy the ride and by all means savour that uniquely private sensation of Schadenfreude (that only works in German) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude, but never, ever, gloat.   Victory is its' own reward.  

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And another milestone - however transitory...

SLR went to 6920 as of writing = US$1.15.  There is the dollar breakthrough.  Long may it last.

Actually we have seen a lot of the weak knees 'players' flushed out of the SLR pool over the past few months.  There is a fairly steep SELL wall at 7000 sat, so that will be the next group of 'day traders' cashing in.

Even as I write that wall was flushed and now stands at 7500 sat.  This is probably a P&D but interesting to watch.  Certainly unless we have a large defector the P&D traders will be buying / selling to themselves.  More profit for Bitrex.

Pass the popcorn


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Someone (aka Solarcoiner) dumped all his belongings on buy support to exit.  

And told that SLR will never be over 10K sat forever. What a curse!

Let's make SLR 10K sat over again!
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solarcoiner made the call to dump his/her SLR and get out - fine everyone has a price.  The rest is just 'seller's remorse'.

For someone holding such a specific username, the association must have been quite lengthy, so the departure trauma is not going to be easy to manage.   

The Parthian shot metaphor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_shot) is not a curse, just wishful thinking to bolster a (IMHO) poor decision to sell.   

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I have 2 x Prius - one is an original 2001 model (NWH11) that is still going strong @ 270,000kms (albeit on its' second battery) - now named Lazarus ('cos it will not die )  The other is a much newer Prius C that is hardly used at the moment as the Memsahib and I try to run Lazarus into submission.

My day to day car that I love the most is a LEAF that I  charge with excess solar most days in the summer at least.  This is effectively free travel, but I am annoyed that I have to lift the bonnet every couple of weeks to add washer fluid

I also created a solar diverter  to fight back against the loss of FIT (Feed In Tariff) - PALADIN.  The hardware is relatively simple - the firmware / software - not so much.  But everyone needs a hobby ....

You can see PALADIN in operation in real time at my house on 'YouTube' by searching for ' PALADIN DESKTOP'.   There is an explanation of the AI / Autopilot element on there also.  (PALADIN.NZ) has more details.

I can make PALADIN write its' data stream to the SLR blockchain - but I don't really see the point at the moment.  Later it might well be a sensible way of combining the 'medium data' from an individual unit to 'huge data' from many, rather than use a server side process.  We shall see what the new wallet code looks like.



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Wonderful - many thanks - that worked just fine..

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I would like to be able to get 2.1.8 running. 

I download 2.1.8 from solarcoin.org and from the 2.1.7 and both times it reinstalls and reloads the block chain fine, but both times the HELP ABOUT says it is 2.1.7 !!

It then, once again, prompts me to install the mandatory update to 2.1.8

Ground Hog Day ....

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All,
         let me break down the 2.1.7 upgrade process for you a bit further.  As there are added frustrations since this is a 'new' file for most browsers/AntiVirus/Windows stuff...


From the 2.1.6 HELP ->  Check for Update

Say YES to everything.

As that starts downloading ->  Turn off your AntiVirus for the next 30 minutes (it is slowwww)

Windows will moan about the download.

Click - > more details

Say Yes

2.1.7 is now loaded ...

Let it start and load whatever it does that takes longer than booting Windows 8 on a 286 PC

Reload the Block Chain - > have dinner, in fact have dinner and drinks - this is slow....

Rescan your wallet  - >  take a post dinner nap

Wait for it all to start again

Pray

Rinse and repeat as required until you have a functional wallet that holds some promise that the POW rewards don't go [?]....


Seriously though - well done Devs, let's hope you have the solution with 2.1.7 as 2.1.6 was driving me even more insane than I am normally

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According to CryptoID / SLR Explorer there are just 14 wallets active on the 'correct' fork right now.  As this is out of 67 on 2.1.6 and 18 still on 2.1.1 (which is no longer valid I understand).

My wallet(s) are all now showing all [?] / orphaned blocks since the fork and it would seem to be better to shut them down rather than keep poisoning the well by being on the wrong one.

I have reloaded the blockchain, scanned the wallets, restarted over and over and frankly this is starting to look worrying.


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Yes, except that - in the process of registering for a solar claim, you do have to provide a registered installer receipt / invoice which will state the nameplate capacity.  (which is the total output of the system in ideal solar conditions.  Usually the lesser of either the total panel capacities or the inverter(s)). But of course that can be forged like anything else.  Also, here in NZ at least, you have to have your system registered with the local transmission / lines company and inspected and certified by them as well.   This is a nominal expense and hassle, but you just cannot reasonably connect 4kW to the grid on any old inverter that may well kill a linesman if it does not behave on a grid failure.  So that is another layer of verification and document chain to hack for the wannabe fraudster.  That is a lot of work for a few SLR a year, because at 1 SLR per generated MWh, I get 5.8SLR a year.   If SLR was at the value of BTC, that would be worth, what,  $3000 a year.  Maybe this would be worth a little larceny it for those of a weakened moral persuasion, but it hardly a fortune - and an unlikely one at that.

The best way to verify your install is with Google Earth.  Most working panels have to be able to see the sky:) - and can be seen by GE.  GE's picture of my roof shows exactly how many panels I have (24).  That they are 190W rather than the more modern 250W plus panels, cannot of course be verified by GE.  However my limitation is my inverter capacity.  SLR have my inverter details and serial numbers, so my installed value is easily verifiable. 

Anyway, your points are valid - fraud is everywhere, and if the prize is worthwhile, someone will find a way to  distort, rort, corrupt or just plain steal it.  And as you say yourself, if you put monitoring equipment on to a system - that too can be manipulated unless it is very clever.   If there was a common  interface on the multitude of inverters then it would be simple enough to come up with a blockchain type solution (using the SLR chain perhaps) that automatically put that day's output onto the blockchain.  Each inverter could then be supporting the chain as well.  However this is far from the case - it is a madness out there in inverter world, a standards anarchy not seen since the days of CP/M.

So the answer, at this stage is unknowable, but I am sure the answer is not that far away in the greater scheme of things.  If SLR ever got to whatever value it would take to trigger fraud, I am sure a suitably effective system would evolve to prevent it. 

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For what it is worth - getting hot under the collar about solar generation fraud is quite meaningless provided the panel wattage installed is properly verified.

Day to day output is variable,  month on month is just about static, but year on year for a given location is almost a constant - give or take some cleaning, climate change etc.

You do need to take into account the geography - for instance my Auckland 4.2kW will not have the same annual output as an Arizona 4.2kW.

Each installation will have its' slight output variations from the one next door, shading / inverter type / panel type / orientation - but these are pretty much fixed once the system is started.  

My panels have averaged 15.8kWh / day over the past 1656 days since install, with max / min annuals at 16.2 and 15.6.  I fail to see why there is all the fuss, unless I have missed something...

BTW - checkout : paladin.nz for the latest in excess solar recovery to hot water / storage heating / pools and EV charging.

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And if you could filter out all the 5-25 SLR bot bets then the picture would be much clearer.

Now that is a GOOD image for SLR.  It clicks (for me anyway) all the right buttons :

Sunshine
Clean / Green
Renewal
Pollution free skies
Uncluttered horizon
.....

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Oh, many people have been powering PCs with solar for quite a while.  My workshop has a 225w panel that keeps 2x12vx120Ah (24v) batteries on-line.  A small HP tablet (TC1100) (win XP) which originally took 18v from a mains power brick manages to get by nicely on the 26v off the batteries and draws <20w  (<1 amp).   Chugs away happily doing all manner of monitoring tasks around the house and runs my SLR wallet.  Linked by WiFi to my domestic router.   The biggest power drain is the HDD and I do need to put a SSD in there sooner rather than  later, but half decent PATA / IDE 3.5 SSDs are like unicorn sh!t.... Yes it is that old

The TC1100 will run 200+ hours off the battery pack alone, but the 225W panel keeps that pack fully charged and plenty to spare to run the bilge pump that drives the waterfall in the garden feature too.  I love DC

You can use one of these fancy little USB/HDMI plugs, but an old baby laptop is way cheaper (mostly free) and once you dump the internal battery and get a solid state drive into them, they work very well off a battery supply.  12v is tricky and needs a up-voltage booster to a minimum of 18v, and these are quite inefficient.  But 24v is golden.  The regulator in the PC/laptop can handle that extra 6v easily.

I have so much solar off the shed 'mini grid' that I am thinking of putting a couple of ASIC miners back on-line - but to mine what is the better question.

Checkout Paladin.nz for the latest creation.  Or as my wife says - 'for 40 years you have been dicking around in the shed and at last you have made something that other people actually need.'   Actually it works extremely well and we have a modular design so loads other than the hot water element can be managed. 

I have the J1772 EV charging protocol sorted and my house PV (4.2KW) happily charges the Leaf whenever it is plugged in and there is any spare solar over the minimum accept for the car's charger (1.5KWh).  Now that is cheap motoring at about 7km/KW, since our marginal FIT is now NZ$0.08c.  So giving power back to the grid is just rewarding the rogues and thieves that control it.  Hence Paladin's purpose and creation.

Now that the Paladin production line is out of my shed and into commercial production here in NZ, I have a source of surplus mother & daughter boards that don't require hours of soldering and fiddly work that hurts my back and eyes.  I am considering putting a basic 'kit form' Paladin together for home assembly.  If and when I do I will only be selling it for SLR.  The market will be small, and my margins are high - so I will not need to repatriate the SLR to FIAT in those circumstances.  The interesting thing is how to price it.

So I will throw this question open to the group here :  If I put together a comprehensive, plug and play Paladin kit that will have to sell for approximately US$200 all inclusive to be viable, what SLR value should I put on it?  Right now SLR is pretty stable  so I could presumably just do a simple conversion and make it around 16K SLR.  It would be interesting to see what selling a few of these without recovering FIAT would do to the SLR market.  Thoughts?

T

Query reference IP addresses and the wallet staying properly connected :

Although we do not have a static IP, the IP address here stays pretty much static generally.  However, just recently we have had a spate of IP address changes for whatever reason. 

The result of this is that the SLR wallet drops off to 3 connections and consequently stops 'Staking' and goes back to 'In Sync' for what seems to be a long time.

Is there a cure to this? since it would seem a waste of time having the wallet open at all just to be 'In Sync'....

Thanks
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Thanks for the heads up on this one.  Just checked the stats on my wallet running on a high end laptop (the only task):

Average Upload : 584kbps
Average Download : 2.2Mbps
Instantaneous CPU  Use  : 21%

This is just out of order.  The CPU use my laptop can handle - although it costs money to use so many MIPs - however it may be intermittent.

The data use though is totally off.  What in god's name is it doing downloading continuously at  2.2 Mbps (mega bits / second), that's a lot of data - 280+ Kilobytes/sec - what is going on??

No wonder my internet has been scruffy for the past week ...

I am not looking forward to my data bill.  The few SLR I have earned in interest will need to be worth $10 each to pay for the data alone - don't even mention the Watts

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That would seem correct.  The blockchain has not stalled completely YET, but it is badly stuck.

I think the 500 confirms was to ensure an 8 hour turnover of staked blocks - but maybe the 8 hours (8.333r) is a  consequence of the 500 blocks.  Whatever the reason we are stuck mostway up the up a hill with minimal movement now. 

I am still showing a large chunk (35%) of unstaked coins too - so they are no help.  I was hoping they would come into play as the blocks marched on, but 6 days in they are still in limbo.

As of writing, we are at 3 blocks per hour and falling....  The question is how to get out of this Gordian Knot without restarting the chain again.  The parameters appear to be trying to adjust, but as this only takes place every hour (or is that 60 blocks?)

It is hardly a tidy, self-balancing situation.  The danger is that we are, frankly, wasting  'energy' / money now - running wallets on a stalled blockchain; and people will close down their wallets and everything will really grind to a halt.

T
 

Or you could just let the software run for a day or so and allow it to get its' digital ducks in a row.  It will eventually make some sense.  'Have a little faith Moriarty' (Kelly's Hero's).


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