I started mining Litecoin back when it was actually profitable. Then I switched to feathercoin, love the community there, if anyone is interested in an amazing crypto community feathercoin is awesome! But then I started looking for alternatives and I ran across solarcoin based on a friends recommendation. I started mining it with my three 7950 radeon MSI twin frozr cards (yeah I'm old school haha), and kept mining them when the difficulty was under 1. Man I was getting thousands of coins a day! I sold a few of them, and I also traded a few to increase my holdings a little. I managed to pick up about 27 MH of cloud hashing power and a mined a few with that also for a bit, but the software GAW was using wasn't right and they didn't perform very well. There was a short period when I wasn't able to mine some SLR and I felt kind of odd about that so I picked up a GAW Fury and started hashing away again. I now have two Fury's on miningpoolhub pulling between 1.9 and 4.5 MH/s. But I've already accumulated around 200k coins, 150k of which are in cold storage until the sun burns out to help with inflation issues this coin is suffering.
And that's my solarcoin mining story. The community story is quite amazing also. Met some smart people, so smart I feel like a frog swimming amongst dolphins. What I've learning in the last 2 months about the environmental issues just being aware of solarcoins mission has both inspired me and made me ill. This coin HAS to succeed. Solar must be a major component of our power requirements in order to reverse environmental damage caused by a lack of foresight and technological barriers which now have been tackled. Not saying solar won't without solarcoin, it very well has in the last decade but solarcoin does fill a market void that has been available to other sources of energy for decades. It's the right technology, and right time for it.
So do you have a solar system bud? Are you doing your part.......jk:-) Funny, it wasn't really related to solar coin but I my wife and I got solar put on our house a few months ago.......love it! Also helped my mom buy her retirement house here recently, was planning on investing some of her retirement funds into a solar system for her house. Searched for a home for her for several months and was having a hard time finding the right home for her, put in a few bids during this time that we lost, was getting frustrating as hell.
Then my oldest sister winds up in the hospital and for the nest week were being told there was no chance she was going to survive! Needless to say this put the home search to a stop. She was in the hospital for a few weeks but came back like nothing short of a miracle. It was decided among the family that she would now be moving in with my mother on a permanent basis.
That day we all made that decision, my mom and I went back on the house hunt. We found a house that very day that was absolutely PERFECT and the owners were there without their Realtor which gave me a chance to get personal with the owners. The next day we had an offer in and they accepted, that deal went through. It also came with a fairly and BRAND NEW solar system that was NOT reflected in the price of the home. She basically got a $25k system for free with the house.
Having solar now, neither of know how we ever went without it! It is so cool to run our AC units without worrying about HUGE electrical bills:-)