SolarCoin volume on Bittrex has been increasing recently. §20-30k traded per day the last few days. Still less than AllCrypt, but gaining ground. Nice to see some action for our currency on a bigger exchange, and Bittrex has been growing and adding new features, etc. Maybe in a few more months it'll be just as big as MintPal and Cryptsy.
https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=BTC-SLRI just wish we could get some traders interested in this coin to give it more of a liquid order book. I have a feeling that nearly all the §SLR being "traded" on the exchanges is just miners dumping it straight into the hands of long-term investors who will never sell it for 2+ years.
Looking on the bright side, it's hard to imagine the price not going up when the supply of coins being mined by immediate dumpers starts to decline. Buying interest is there, eating a steady diet of dumped coins day after day.
I think the spike on bittrex was due to allcrypt being down for maintenance for a awhile (at that time).
I don't think that's the reason. I moved some of my bids from AllCrypt to Bittrex and some of them got filled, which was a significant chunk of the volume. Other people apparently got bids filled on Bittrex too, or bought into some of the asks, which accounted for the rest of the volume spike. Now today, a bunch of coins got dumped on Bittrex and I managed to get a bid filled in the 800s, which I consider to be a great price for a long-term investment in this coin. I hope more people will put up bids on Bittrex at these awesome prices.
Hopefully that price does not become the new norm…otherwise it may be you and I buying them all. lol
I would guess that there's a price, probably not much lower than the current price, at which it would no longer be profitable to mine and sell this coin. If it goes below that price, whatever it is, presumably the only people mining would be long-term holders. And therefore the selling pressure on the exchanges would stop.
I wonder what that price is? Anybody who mines this coin have any idea?
We're already there! You can't mine this coin with a diff of 10 and produce and sell enough coins to pay for your hydro, let alone the rig costs!
Then the constant selling pressure is coming from some unknown source, instead of miners. Perhaps early "investors" who got in because they thought it would be a quick pump rather than because of believing in the long-term potential of this currency?
I have to admit I don't get why anyone would have bought SolarCoin in the first place unless they were planning to hold it for at least a year. This currency was never touted as a quickie pump like 99% of other altcoins out there. It was always intended to be a gradual plan of development with a long time horizon.
I think the people selling below 1000 satoshis are going to regret it. Especially if we do switch to PoS and there are hardly any new coins available to be bought later on.
It's not profitable for small miners; GPU or small ASIC miners, when the diff is around 10 or more. The selling is coming from those that have the big hashing power. There just are not that many profitable alt coins, so solarcoin can net them some quick BTC when they drop near 1000 Mh/s on it for a few short hours, and then sell off their 100K+ coins they produce.
I totally agree, most people who are mining and buying solarcoins believe in the long term potential and are holding on to them.
Have to hope that some increase in coin value will come via more exposure and anything the Foundation can cook up. Once that happens, more investors should come :-)