Relevant 6-8 Hangout (part 1) topics ...4:26:
bytemaster : We will recommend for ease of migration users transfer all funds to themselves for each asset.
5:29:
bytemaster: You will be able to export the private keys from the existing wallet into the new wallet and have all of your stake. All assets and bitassets will be migrated along with all short positions.
5:56:
bytemaster : This is a 1 to 1 upgrade, we expect less than 24 hrs downtime between the snapshot and launch of the new system. The collateral requirements and pricing for the bitassets should remain unchanged.
6:01:
bytemaster : We're giving 30 days notice, so all shorts should have rolled over. If you're unhappy, you'll have 30 days from time we announce to exit your position voluntarily or you will defacto accept the new terms.
6:37:
fuzzy : Transfer assets to yourself?
6:51:
bytemaster : We'll be working with the exchanges to be sure they're ready to upgrade, so I don't believe it will be a problem. The reason to transfer the funds to yourself is to have everything under one key. In BTS 2.0, every balance record (or key) will be it's own account, so it's going to work much closer to how bitcoin works, where every key is it's own account, so you're balances will be directly tied to your account name. TITAN users, your balance will be tied to your name.
7:50:
fuzzy : Are there any exchanges that are honoring the sharedropping?
8:26:
bytemaster : CCEDK will, as well as the Chinese exchanges (BTer, btc38) that have in the past will likely as well, but we haven't talked to them at this time.
8:53:
bytemaster: We've been talking the past several months about TITAN being phased out. There's a lot of reasons. Peformance and getting rid of false sense of property. Voting was revealing your account. You didn't have direct control of how your identy was leaked out. We decided to stop trying to automate privacy, and instead to give the user direct control. You can still create many accounts and make sure you never transfer funds between your account.
10:43:
bytemaster : Under 2.0 you will have shorter addresses for all existing balance records
12:04: In 2.0, is it still possible to have funds in an unregistered account
12:18:
bytemaster : The answer is no. If you want the equivalent of an unregistered account, register the account to the hash of some random characters. The reason is the way the new protocol is structured. Scalability & performance discussion : transactions are 100 bytes, where bitcoin is 250 bytes, because the transfer operation is referring to account ID's instead of addresses. Which means we're using 3 bytes instead of 24 or 32 bytes to reference accounts. All permissions are based on KeyID's which are a couple bytes rather than 32 bytes. Any key has to be registered before it can be used.
33:26:
community : How do you see migration path of DPOS 1 to DPOS 2 in terms of roles?
33:35:
bytemaster : All migration paths are documented on BitShares website. If you can't find an answer post a question on the forum. Short answer, every delegate who is 5% and below will be migrated as a Witness only. Any delegate over 5% will be migrated as a Witness and a Worker. And all initial delegate positions will be held by the developers until others are voted in. In the new system delegates have control over proposing changing transaction fees and blockchain parameters.