Bought bitUSD, Paid BTS, Never Received bitUSD...

[fuzzy]

Yes, that is the error I get when I type history.  However, I had to restart my computer, which means I have to manually go in again and change the old apps/data/roaming/bitshares folder name, restart the client, re-import the json file and wait all night for it to resync and rescan before I can get back to  you guys on any of this...because my client is still saying that it an instance is already running (when it is not). 

could this be related to his problem?  ???

I keep my computer running most of the time so I don't have to "reset" it by using this process and had not "reset" it after making the order...so it wouldn't be connected.  :/

[liondani]

Yes, that is the error I get when I type history.  However, I had to restart my computer, which means I have to manually go in again and change the old apps/data/roaming/bitshares folder name, restart the client, re-import the json file and wait all night for it to resync and rescan before I can get back to  you guys on any of this...because my client is still saying that it an instance is already running (when it is not). 

could this be related to his problem?  ???

[fuzzy]

Ok so that does nothing to suggest that you accidentally bought the wrong asset.

Can you type "history" in the command line like xeroc suggested? Is that error what you get when you press "history" ?

Yes, that is the error I get when I type history.  However, I had to restart my computer, which means I have to manually go in again and change the old apps/data/roaming/bitshares folder name, restart the client, re-import the json file and wait all night for it to resync and rescan before I can get back to  you guys on any of this...because my client is still saying that it an instance is already running (when it is not). 

@fuzz .. please answer those questions:
- did you do the trade in the GUI or per command line?
- did you get the error above during the trade or somewhere else?
- do "balance <account name>" and "history <account name>" show the SAME accumulated balance?

1)  I traded using the GUI because I thought it would be the safest way
2)  I got the error above when I followed your directions in this post: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=13324.msg174339#msg174339
3)  I have not yet had the chance to do this and I will check to see as soon as my wallet is up and ready again (in 5-6 hours)



---I must say though, I greatly appreciate your responses everyone. 

[xeroc]

http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/assets/asset?id=BITUSD

BITUSD do not show any trades...so hopefully fuzz did not lose 50K BTS....

Good point ..

But I wonder what could have happend here:

20024 invalid_asset_symbol: invalid asset symbol
Invalid asset symbol!
    {"asset_symbol":"bitusd"}
    bitshares  transaction_ledger.cpp:1412 bts::wallet::wallet::get_transaction_history

    {}
    bitshares  transaction_ledger.cpp:1458 bts::wallet::wallet::get_transaction_history

    {}
    bitshares  transaction_ledger.cpp:1572 bts::wallet::wallet::get_pretty_transaction_history

    {}
    bitshares  wallet_api.cpp:793 bts::client::detail::client_impl::wallet_account_transaction_history

    {}
    bitshares  common_api_client.cpp:3197 bts::rpc_stubs::common_api_client::wallet_account_transaction_history

    {"command":"history"}
    bitshares  cli.cpp:579 bts::cli::detail::cli_impl::execute_command

@fuzz .. please answer those questions:
- did you do the trade in the GUI or per command line?
- did you get the error above during the trade or somewhere else?
- do "balance <account name>" and "history <account name>" show the SAME accumulated balance?

[Riverhead]

Another thought: Are you sure you were on the right fork? If you were down a rabbit hole it'll be like nothing actually happened.

[jshow5555]

Can you walk us through what you did? I just tried to get some BITUSD and it wasn't easy. The books are empty so even if I managed to place an order I could just cancel it unless someone has a script setup to watch it.

The easiest thing to do, and what I hope you did, was open the client, go to market tab and click on the bitUSD:BTC with the graph under featured markets. Otherwise you'd have had to type BITUSD:BTS into the search engine and pick it from a dropdown list.

Lastly the client produces an error: " The BITUSD/BTS market has not yet been initialized."

All may not be lost...

All of that plus:

http://www.bitsharesblocks.com/assets/asset?id=BITUSD

BITUSD do not show any trades...so hopefully fuzz did not lose 50K BTS....

[Riverhead]

Can you walk us through what you did? I just tried to get some BITUSD and it wasn't easy. The books are empty so even if I managed to place an order I could just cancel it unless someone has a script setup to watch it.

The easiest thing to do, and what I hope you did, was open the client, go to market tab and click on the bitUSD:BTC with the graph under featured markets. Otherwise you'd have had to type BITUSD:BTS into the search engine and pick it from a dropdown list.

Lastly the client produces an error: " The BITUSD/BTS market has not yet been initialized."

All may not be lost...

[toast]

Market-pegged assets get "Bit" prepended to them automatically in the GUI. So the real bitUSD is called "USD" internally and "BitUSD" in the GUI. The fake user-issued asset is called BITUSD internally and in the GUI.

[mf-tzo]

Isnt the asset called BitUSD, BitGBP, Bitxxx? atleast thats what Im using in the shopping carts... is that wrong?

I think (and hope) that what they mean is that bitusd is the correct asset and BITusd is a scam asset. Please confirm... ::)

[jsidhu]

Isnt the asset called BitUSD, BitGBP, Bitxxx? atleast thats what Im using in the shopping carts... is that wrong?

[toast]

Ok so that does nothing to suggest that you accidentally bought the wrong asset.

Can you type "history" in the command line like xeroc suggested? Is that error what you get when you press "history" ?

[fuzzy]

no I was using the user interface, but I am glad that my problems are causing our community to evolve.

If I lost 50,000 BTS it is quite depressing, but it is what it is. 

Perhaps we should focus on being quiet and putting our noses to the grindstone on coming up with marketing plans while the coders really focus on working on the client.  It has been a nightmare to use so I have largely been just holding my BTS for the longterm.  My first attempt to hedge really seems to have bit me in the ass because the wallet is not where it needs to be. 

I am not saying this to be a dick, but I sincerely hope the coders focus directly on usability of the wallet for anyone and everyone.  If these losses happen with the wrong person there will be a pretty hefty campaign against what we are all trying to do here.

You used the user interface to trade BITUSD and not bitUSD? Are you sure?
What does your trx history say?

Nothing shows up in transaction history.  It is as though it never happened...except I am down 50,000 bts.

[toast]

no I was using the user interface, but I am glad that my problems are causing our community to evolve.

If I lost 50,000 BTS it is quite depressing, but it is what it is. 

Perhaps we should focus on being quiet and putting our noses to the grindstone on coming up with marketing plans while the coders really focus on working on the client.  It has been a nightmare to use so I have largely been just holding my BTS for the longterm.  My first attempt to hedge really seems to have bit me in the ass because the wallet is not where it needs to be. 

I am not saying this to be a dick, but I sincerely hope the coders focus directly on usability of the wallet for anyone and everyone.  If these losses happen with the wrong person there will be a pretty hefty campaign against what we are all trying to do here.

You used the user interface to trade BITUSD and not bitUSD? Are you sure?
What does your trx history say?

[fuzzy]

No I was using the user interface, but I am glad that my problems are causing our community to evolve (if we are looking at a silver lining).

If I lost 50,000 BTS it is quite depressing, but it is what it is. 

Perhaps we should focus on being quiet and putting our noses to the grindstone on coming up with marketing plans while the coders really focus on working on the client.  It has been a nightmare to use so I have largely been just holding my BTS for the longterm.  My first attempt to hedge really seems to have bit me in the ass because the wallet is not where it needs to be. 

I am not saying this to be a dick, but I sincerely hope the coders focus directly on usability of the wallet for anyone and everyone before anything else.  We should try to give a goal (perhaps 30-60 days) to have it relatively bug-free on all popular OS's by that date. 

If these losses happen with the wrong person there will be a pretty hefty campaign against what we are all trying to do here. 

[xeroc]

ehm ... from the release notes of 0.5.0:

- Asset symbols cannot start with "BIT"

just have to wait for the hardfork .. not sure what will happen to existing assets though