BitShares now Live on Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)

[DestBest]

Amazing!  :D

[xh3]

It looks like the problem was on microsoft's end.  It spun up just fine this morning.

[Fox]

im having trouble spinning one up...
The template deployment 'Microsoft.Template' is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is '_____________'. See inner errors for details. Please see http://aka.ms/arm-deploy for usage details.

does anyone know what this might mean?

Odd. The template is unchanged since launch. I will look at it in the near future. Currently in meetings.

[xh3]

im having trouble spinning one up...
The template deployment 'Microsoft.Template' is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is '_____________'. See inner errors for details. Please see http://aka.ms/arm-deploy for usage details.

does anyone know what this might mean?

[DestBest]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

Absolutely fantastic work Fox thank you thank you!! +5% +5% +5%

It would be nice if we could be one of the first ones on Google and Amazon.

+5% +5% +5%

+5% +5% +5%

[BTS007]

good! +5% +5% +5%

[kenCode]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

Absolutely fantastic work Fox thank you thank you!! +5% +5% +5%

It would be nice if we could be one of the first ones on Google and Amazon.

+5% +5% +5%

[Akado]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

Absolutely fantastic work Fox thank you thank you!! +5% +5% +5%

It would be nice if we could be one of the first ones on Google and Amazon.

[cube]

This should be our in-of-the-seasons annoucement.  ;)

[Fox]

If you are tweeting the Azure BaaS blog post, you may use my link:
bit.ly/BTSBaaS
@ryanRfox

Thanks,
Fox

[liondani]

Is bitshares on the top ?

[Akado]

All rise to the crypto anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HtyF0jux2Q

[liondani]

Well done !



https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-update-6/

[btstip]

Hey mf-tzo, here are the results of your tips...

• fox: has been credited 800 PERCENT
• fox: Insufficient funds for asset 1.3.0

Curious about ShareBits? Visit us at http://sharebits.io and start tipping BTS on https://bitsharestalk.org/ today!

Source: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21842.msg285455/topicseen.html#msg285455

Created by hybridd

[mf-tzo]

#sharebits "fox" 800 PERCENT

#sharebits "fox" 1000 GREAT IDEA

#sharebits "fox" 1 BTSFCX

#sharebits "fox" 2000 SPERM

#sharebits "fox" 20 GIFTS.BCSHAREPTS

#sharebits "fox" 1 MERRY.CHRISTMAS

#sharebits "fox" 30 BTS

[xh3]

Is there a preconfigured Linux release that one could use to spin up a node?  that would be cool.

Yes, that is exactly what the Azure BaaS templates are intended to accomplish.  Currently BitShares on BaaS is running on Ubuntu 15.10 based on the initial template.  Future updates will likely include builds on other OS platforms.

I meant to ask, is there a preconfigured Linux release available for download for people who do not wish to lease a server from the Azure Marketplace?

[kingslanding]

Article on Brave New Coin website authored by Luke Parker:
BitShares price jump follows Microsoft Azure addition

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitshares-price-jump-follows-microsoft-azure-addition/

Fox, I like your quote from the article:
"Future innovation will likely come in a side-chain style project, first with Ethereum then Bitcoin. I don't see the current linear blockchain like we have today lasting beyond 5 years."

Relationships & synergies with other cryptos/companies will bring in VC money and price appreciation.  I think as a community we're starting to see hard evidence of it.  Well done, Fox.

[unreadPostsSinceLastVisit]

fox you're like the person I would want to be if i had any self control.

[Fox]

Article on Brave New Coin website authored by Luke Parker:
BitShares price jump follows Microsoft Azure addition

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitshares-price-jump-follows-microsoft-azure-addition/

[xeroc]

http://bitshares.eu/blog/2016/03/11/baas/

[kenCode]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

Absolutely fantastic work Fox thank you thank you!! +5% +5% +5%

[Fox]

Did you get around to devtest lab yet?

I have yet to get to this.  It is my next priority.  Please watch for a separate thread shortly where I will solicit feedback on how best to accomplish this.

You can get in touch with me, i've already done it for another project.

PM sent.

[jsidhu]

Did you get around to devtest lab yet?

I have yet to get to this.  It is my next priority.  Please watch for a separate thread shortly where I will solicit feedback on how best to accomplish this.

You can get in touch with me, i've already done it for another project.

[Akado]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

Cool! Thanks for your hard work Fox!

[Fox]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

I will look into both Google and Amazon offerings.  If they have template-based deployment solutions similar to Azure, I should expect it will be relatively easy to adapt them.  I expect the Bash script to remain nearly unchanged.

[Fox]

Did you get around to devtest lab yet?

I have yet to get to this.  It is my next priority.  Please watch for a separate thread shortly where I will solicit feedback on how best to accomplish this.

[abit]

does it mean that if enough witnesses use Azure... that we could easily switch to 1 sec block production?... Maybe the next month (?) !!!!!  ;D

"A cloud deployment for Bitshares is especially useful because the witnesses that run full nodes and add blocks to the Bitshares blockchain need to run their nodes on high-performance computing devices owing to the low block time in Bitshares. "
read more...
http://www.smithandcrown.com/bitshares-joins-peers-gets-added-microsoft-azure/

That would be centralized..

[abit]

Awesome!  I'll include in the latest update.

Marley

Above is the reply I received to my email containing the BitShares blurb the community crafted in the original thread.  It was received about 8 hours ago (while I slept).  He does not indicate "when" the update will occur however.

Good!

[Fox]

Is there a preconfigured Linux release that one could use to spin up a node?  that would be cool.

Yes, that is exactly what the Azure BaaS templates are intended to accomplish.  Currently BitShares on BaaS is running on Ubuntu 15.10 based on the initial template.  Future updates will likely include builds on other OS platforms.

[Fox]

Awesome!  I'll include in the latest update.

Marley

Above is the reply I received to my email containing the BitShares blurb the community crafted in the original thread.  It was received about 8 hours ago (while I slept).  He does not indicate "when" the update will occur however.

[Shentist]

they pump after this ANN is amazing, but i think this will be more helpful in the long run.

i think our goal should be to lower the entry to new developers as low as possible.

only xerocs is writing documentation, but this should be prio also for the core devs. If you ask me, we should have short videos and papers
how our codebases works and can be used and forked.

great work again fox  8)

[kenCode]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

+5% +5% +5% +5% +5%

[jsidhu]

Did you get around to devtest lab yet?

[liondani]

does it mean that if enough witnesses use Azure... that we could easily switch to 1 sec block production?... Maybe the next month (?) !!!!!  ;D

"A cloud deployment for Bitshares is especially useful because the witnesses that run full nodes and add blocks to the Bitshares blockchain need to run their nodes on high-performance computing devices owing to the low block time in Bitshares. "
read more...
http://www.smithandcrown.com/bitshares-joins-peers-gets-added-microsoft-azure/

[DestBest]

Need some more upvotes here, please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/49tvf8/bitshares_blockchainasaservice_now_available_on/

Done +5%

This one need some more upvotes too: http://www.smithandcrown.com/bitshares-joins-peers-gets-added-microsoft-azure/

[donkeypong]

Need some more upvotes here, please.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/49tvf8/bitshares_blockchainasaservice_now_available_on/

[Akado]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

+5%

What's better than being on an Azure blogpost? Being on Azure and Google blogposts  :P

[DestBest]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

+5%

[Akado]

What about having the same but for Google Cloud Platfrom? It's one more platform, gives us more reach. Also the rest is only in Azure while we would be in two platforms.

https://cloud.google.com/

Can't everything just be reused?

[liondani]

[xh3]

Is there a preconfigured Linux release that one could use to spin up a node?  that would be cool.

[emailtooaj]

Great work @fox !!!  +5 +5

[infovortice2013]

congrats !

[ncinic]

 +5% +5% +5%

[openledger]

 +5% +5%

[liondani]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The Azure BaaS platform allows anyone to spin up a node and CLI wallet with the minimum of effort. When Plasma is released, I will add this to a template to enable the toolkit resources for developers.

great! i think to get interested people a better and easier entry point will help a lot. keep going :D

^THIS  +5%

but I think we must increase  the number of witnesses also for the same reason
we must be more decentralized and an easier entry point if we want a real network effect !!!

[Ben Mason]

Thanks Fox! There are important boxes we can tick that encourage a sense of legitimacy and this happens to be one of them. Fantastic work!

[Empirical1.2]

 +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% +5% Excellent work Fox

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The general idea of the BaaS is that when some company is looking to build a blockchain they can shop through Azure and spin one up.

As far as the crypto-traders are concerns though.. another reason to buy on the hype and sell on the news.

You're obviously free to advise BTS holders & all the outsiders and potential new BTS users and investors viewing this positive announcement thread to sell BTS right now, though I think that's probably best put in the price speculation thread instead.

As far as other DACs like Factom & Emercoin go they've since managed to retain a large amount of the additional value that was initially attributable to their addition on Azure. This adds utility, name recognition & greater confidence to a brand, one thing BTS in particular has been lacking. (Positive brand associations and integrations are something BTS has been much criticised for in the past,  so some real & retainable brand value has been created here especially if we capitalise and build on the opportunity.)

It also opens up BTS to a much wider technology savvy audience. The Azure Twitter feed alone, where it may be announced if the addition is added to a Marley blog post has 400k+ followers of people interested in new technology. So while yes we'll likely see an overshoot 4-8 days after it's announced on there. I believe Fox's efforts may have added real tangible value which BTS can build on.

Only a month ago you believed it was worth a lot of time and money being spent on this...

If I don't see any movement on this in the coming month I promise you we will head this up and be the lead to ensure that we can be available on the Azure BaaS.

At present we are tied up with other things atm and this would require a great deal of attention money and time to execute.

I think it will be worth the effort though.

Again excellent work and THANK YOU Fox for your efforts

[kenCode]

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[testz]

 +5%  :)

[Fox]

BitShares Added to Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform
http://bitsharesblog.com/bitshares-added-to-microsoft-azure-cloud-computing-platform/

Brilliant! My first published quote in this space.
Thanks

[JetainM]

markmarkmarkmarkmarkmarkmarkmark

[wuyanren]

I would prefer to have a stable node, and a perfect web version of the wallet

[BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The general idea of the BaaS is that when some company is looking to build a blockchain they can shop through Azure and spin one up.

As far as the crypto-traders are concerns though.. another reason to buy on the hype and sell on the news.

Thanks Data,

So will Microsoft have any affiliation with BTS?  or is this kind of like the Craig's List of blockchain business's?  Are they trying to promote business's building on top of one of the blockchain's within the Azure offering?

Microsoft has no more association with any of these blockchains than Linux has with any host provider.

Microsofts motivation in promoting this is largely due to their entire business strategy of going back to the 80s and focusing in their cloud offering at all costs. Blockchain is edgey and hot as a buzz word for innovation.. its good for them. It's working too.. they keep getting themselves out there like they are the go to place for launching blockchain whatever now.

In cryptoland though.. stories of associations are often overstated if not misleading. There is a reason all the PRs only ever show up on places like Coindesk and never in Bloomberg. :) The association has been conflated and doesn't denote anything more than being included in a repo that adheres to their template environment.

I might sound like I am dumping on this but I'm not. It is another pathway for adoption, and a good one.

I think though most people who are following this news only view the potential market cap growth out of it and don't really understand what happened. Microsoft was heard and everyone gets stary eyed. :)

I'm glad Fox managed to get the template in their repo. Now he gets to have real fun... maintenance! :) I am hoping we can help out with that in the future.

+5% to Fox!

[roadscape]

Well done @Fox! +5%

I already received a google alert: https://azure.microsoft.com/es-es/documentation/templates/bitshares-ubuntu-vm/

[mint chocolate chip]

BitShares Added to Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform
http://bitsharesblog.com/bitshares-added-to-microsoft-azure-cloud-computing-platform/

[lil_jay890]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The general idea of the BaaS is that when some company is looking to build a blockchain they can shop through Azure and spin one up.

As far as the crypto-traders are concerns though.. another reason to buy on the hype and sell on the news.

Thanks Data,

So will Microsoft have any affiliation with BTS?  or is this kind of like the Craig's List of blockchain business's?  Are they trying to promote business's building on top of one of the blockchain's within the Azure offering?

[Shentist]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The Azure BaaS platform allows anyone to spin up a node and CLI wallet with the minimum of effort. When Plasma is released, I will add this to a template to enable the toolkit resources for developers.

great! i think to get interested people a better and easier entry point will help a lot. keep going :D

[Fox]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The Azure BaaS platform allows anyone to spin up a node and CLI wallet with the minimum of effort. When Plasma is released, I will add this to a template to enable the toolkit resources for developers.

[BunkerChainLabs-DataSecurityNode]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

The general idea of the BaaS is that when some company is looking to build a blockchain they can shop through Azure and spin one up.

As far as the crypto-traders are concerns though.. another reason to buy on the hype and sell on the news.

[Fox]

sounds great  +5%

now i as a idiot user, can start my own node in 15 minutes? does i understand it correct? how is the pricing from Azure to services like AWS?

Yes, 15 minutes if you select to install from the PPA (longer if you build from source of course). The only requirement is an Azure subscription. Pricing varies by the region you choose to deploy the template to.

[lil_jay890]

So dumb question... What advantages does Azure give to bitshares other than being associated with the Microsoft name?  Is Azure BaaS a market place?  Can people develop for BTS through Azure?

[Shentist]

sounds great  +5%

now i as a idiot user, can start my own node in 15 minutes? does i understand it correct? how is the pricing from Azure to services like AWS?

[Erlich Bachman]

You have my vote forever Fox.

It was going to take some pretty mainstream media conglomerate to vouch for the validity of DPOS/pegged assets, both concepts which still seemed like witchcraft until someone "trustworthy" as Bill Gates signs off on the math.

Bravo my friend.

[percy520]

Great work Fox!! thanks for doing this for the community!!

[cass]

Great initiative @Fox !! Top notch

[puppies]

I'm confused ...

so does this mean that Preston was wrong ?


*link*
Or does this mean that Microsoft doesn't understand math?

Can we stop linking that crap?  We only help the jerk face get more views when we link to it.

The more backlinks, the more search engines will elevate preston's article in search results. Best to avoid posting a working link....

sorry for derailing, but changing to hxxp will work to prevent it from linking right?

[Ander]

Fox, you are really, really awesome. 

[cube]

Well done, Fox!

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

because I typed consensys , factom ,ethereum , emercoin on the seach box , and I could not find any , but these were the projects that has announced partership with microsoft  . Is their thing a different thing ?

Thanks .

still no factom

Go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

Type "bloc" and click search.

You find them there.

Because Factom is probably not really in yet.

See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-baas-update-2

" The following are in the pipeline:

    Deploy a factomd service exposing the Factom APIs - Q1 2016
    Bitcoin data service of prices from different exchanges recorded on Factom's Blockchain - Q1 2016"

Keywords are "pipeline" and "Q1 2016".  Q1 is not over yet.

[donkeypong]

Great news, thanks!

Now can we get Steve Ballmer to do tricks like slam dunk a basketball off a trampoline while a kooky bird mascot flies overhead?

[werneo]

I'm confused ...

so does this mean that Preston was wrong ?


*link*
Or does this mean that Microsoft doesn't understand math?

Can we stop linking that crap?  We only help the jerk face get more views when we link to it.

The more backlinks, the more search engines will elevate preston's article in search results. Best to avoid posting a working link....

[Fox]

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

because I typed consensys , factom ,ethereum , emercoin on the seach box , and I could not find any , but these were the projects that has announced partership with microsoft  . Is their thing a different thing ?

Thanks .

Yes, this is the same platform as those mentioned above.  I am not sure why the search would not return the proper results.  I've tried "Eth" or "Bit" to return many Etherum releases and both BitShares and BitCore at this URL:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

[btswildpig]

Well done, Fox!

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

because I typed consensys , factom ,ethereum , emercoin on the seach box , and I could not find any , but these were the projects that has announced partership with microsoft  . Is their thing a different thing ?

Thanks .

still no factom

Go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

Type "bloc" and click search.

You find them there.

[cube]

Well done, Fox!

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

because I typed consensys , factom ,ethereum , emercoin on the seach box , and I could not find any , but these were the projects that has announced partership with microsoft  . Is their thing a different thing ?

Thanks .

Go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

Type "bloc" and click search.

You find them there.

[Xeldal]

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

I'd expect to see another update regarding BitShares from Marley Gray here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/author/marleyg/?cdn=disable

[btswildpig]

Is this the same as consensys , factom , emercoin on Azure ?

because I typed consensys , factom ,ethereum , emercoin on the seach box , and I could not find any , but these were the projects that has announced partership with microsoft  . Is their thing a different thing ?

Thanks .

[puppies]

I'm confused ...

so does this mean that Preston was wrong ?


hxxp://prestonbyrne.com/2014/08/17/dont-walk-away-run/

Or does this mean that Microsoft doesn't understand math?

Can we stop linking that crap?  We only help the jerk face get more views when we link to it.

[konelectric]

I still remember the first time I heard of Fox.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,18033.0.html

[puppies]

Awesome work fox.  A small tip to show my appreciation. 

http://cryptofresh.com/tx/8de2f4946ce3b39d25cce562f6320c9a7547a408

[konelectric]

BitShares price went up. Thanks Fox

[chono]

+5%

[twitter]

 +5% +5%  :)+5% +5%

[werneo]

 +5% +5% +5%

Thank you, Fox!

[Fox]

Awesome work  +5% +5%

Btw, there's a spelling type on "#What is BitShare?" It's missing the "S" at the end

Noted and edited above.  Thanks, I'll get that into the next pull request.

[Akado]

Awesome work  +5% +5%

Btw, there's a spelling type on "#What is BitShare?" It's missing the "S" at the end

[GChicken]

Awesome work Fox! - Great news for BitShares :)

[Pheonike]

 +5% +5% +5%

[Fox]

The BitShares on Ubuntu 15.10 template for Microsoft Azure Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) is now live:
https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/tree/master/bitshares-ubuntu-vm

You may search for BitShares at the Azure Quickstart Templates site:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/

README.md:
# BitShares Blockchain Node on Ubuntu VM

This template delivers the BitShares network to your VM in about 15 mintues (PPA install).  Everything you need to get started using the BitShares blockchain from the command line is included.
You may select to build from source or install from the community provided Personal Package Archive (PPA).  Once installed, the 'witnes_node' will begin syncing the public blockchain.
You may then connect via SSH to the VM and launch the 'cli-wallet' to interface with the blockchain.

<a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.Template/uri/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2Fbitshares-ubuntu-vm%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank"><img src="http://azuredeploy.net/deploybutton.png"/></a>
<a href="http://armviz.io/#/?load=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2FAzure%2Fazure-quickstart-templates%2Fmaster%2Fbitshares-ubuntu-vm%2Fazuredeploy.json" target="_blank"><img src="http://armviz.io/visualizebutton.png"/></a>

# What is BitShares?

```
BitShares is an industrial-grade financial blockchain smart contracts platform.  Built using the latest in
industry research, BitShares delivers a decentralized financial platform with speeds approaching NASDAQ.
```

# Template Parameters

When you click the Deploy to Azure icon above, you need to specify the following template parameters:

* `adminUsername`: This is the account for connecting to your BitShares host.
* `adminPassword`: This is your password for the host.  Azure requires passwords to have One upper case, one lower case, a special character, and a number.
* `dnsLabelPrefix`: This is used as both the VM name and DNS name of your public IP address.  Please ensure an unique name.
* `installMethod`: This tells Azure how to install the software bits.  The default is using the community provided PPA.  You may choose to install from source, but be advised this method takes substantially longer to complete.
* `vmSize`: This is the size of the VM to use.  Recommendations: Use the A series for PPA installs, and D series for installations from source.  Notice: Once the blockchain is synced, resize your VM to A1, as the BitShares witness_node requires a small resource footprint.

# Getting Started Tutorial

* Click the `Deploy to Azure` icon above
* Complete the template parameters, choose your resource group, accept the terms and click Create
* Wait about 15 minutes for the VM to spin up and install the bits
* Connect to the VM via SSH using the DNS name assigned to your Public IP
* Launch the cli-wallet: `sudo /usr/bin/cli_wallet --wallet-file=/usr/local/bitshares-2/programs/cli-wallet/wallet.json`
* Assign a secure password `>set_password use_a_secure_password_but_check_your_shoulder_as_it_will_be_displayed_on_screen`
* `ctrl-d` will save the wallet and exit the client
* View your wallet: `nano /usr/local/bitshares-2/programs/cli-wallet/wallet.json`
* Learn more: [http://docs.bitshares.eu](http://docs.bitshares.eu)   

# Licensing

BitShares is offered under the MIT License as [documented here](https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares-2/blob/bitshares/LICENSE.md).

# More About BitShares

Please review [BitShares documentation](https://docs.bitshares.eu) to learn more.

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