Hey guys,

Have a wallet backup that I think has some coins but forgot the passphrase.  I want to see if there is a way to check he balance on an account associated with the wallet.

Thanks.

Hello, my name is Alec Menconi.

I've been following Bitcoin for 2-3 years now and found out about Bitshares sometime around March.  I'm very excited about the possibilities Bitshares offers and that of DACs in general.  My other interests currently are following Storj and attempting to develop games for VR (I own both development kits for the Oculus Rift).  I live in the US in Arizona and have been there for 5+ years so far.

My day job consists mostly of ASP.NET C# MVC development and I've been working in the computer industry for close to a decade now.
Stack Overflow profile (not terribly active there unfortunately): http://stackoverflow.com/users/1763996/alec-menconi
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alec-menconi/47/685/a42

I wanted to thank everyone that voted for my delegate yesterday putting it in the top 101.  Unfortunately I was not expecting to get voted in so fast and I was experimenting with things with my client up and down so I missed a chunk of initial blocks, however after realizing I could produce blocks I've made sure the client stays online and active.

My delegate is up to date and is auto posting price feeds.  I currently have the pay rate set to 20%.  My philosophy here is that for now it is best to return the majority of fees back to the stake holders until the community matures and some consensuses emerge about how users would like their fees to be utilized.  If in the future it looks like a high burn rate is not desirable for whatever reason in relation to other options, I will create a new delegate to match the will of the stakeholders and ask that all votes be transferred to the new delegate.  I do not ever plan to have more than 1 active delegate at a time.

I'd like to help grow this community however I can so please reach out to me if you have a project in the works and are looking for some volunteers.  Also while I appreciate the importance of privacy I am willing to provide proof of who I am if anyone cares to ask for it.  Thank you for the support so far and I hope to continue producing blocks and staying involved with the community long into the future.

Hey guys, just wanted opinions on how secure it is to keep BTSX coins on a VPS like digital ocean.  I have bitsharesx software installed in a few different places and on a couple different OSes, the VPS is standard Ubuntu and not used for anything else so I assume it's relatively safe from being hacked, however how likely is it that the hosting service wipes it on accident?  Should the private key be saved offline as well in case of such an event?

Thanks.

As someone who would like to contribute as a delegate for the upcoming Bitshares XT DAC and will be campaigning on spending funds in a manner that is mostly desired by the shareholders, I've thought about the best way to poll shareholders and collect data on their sentiments about dissemination of earned funds by delegates.

One way I can see doing this is by creating a site where shareholders can go to submit their desired delegate spending "profile".  There would be a number of way to spend funds with a slider indicating what % of earnings should be allocated to each.

Here is a quick and simple proof of concept for what the UI might look like:
http://jsfiddle.net/Ygh5w/2/
Then of course after some data is collected there would be another page or section of that page that would contain reports on the data collected for delegate use.

First, I'd like any feedback from shareholders and potential future delegates about this idea.

Second, if it sounds like something that would be valuable to some, I'd like to brainstorm all the main ways to utilize earned delegate income (invest in development, keep as profit for delegate, marketing, "proof of burn" destruction of funds etc).

Thanks for any comments or criticisms.  If it's something that it seems would be used, I'll try to put up a rough draft of the site over the next week or so.