Should ypool not be shutting down their pts pool?  I have been mining on it and it is taking about 6 weeks to confirm blocks I suppose due to the change to DPOS. My question is when they do confirm are they going to be valid,
Or did I just waste time?

Does it matter if your wallet is running/open/closed etc during this process. I had mine offline during the sparkle snapshot which I believe was today......machine maintenance. Or is it done based on the blockchain info and does not matter? Basicaly how does a snapshot work....how does it measure holdings?

My client started reporting all transaction dates in the year 1969 and I was not recieving shares some time ago.  After checking here I saw that my client needed upgrading and that the current release had some problems. I waited and installed .04.2.6 I believe is the number. It is the latest release as of  12/14.  I am using opensuse linux 64bit.  After recieving the errors I renamed my old bitshare directory and let it rebuild the .bitshares. I ran the QT interface and it asked for new password etc.  Which I set it to the same password as before. I then attempted to import the wallet file and it asked for a passphrase...........I do not remember ever
creating a passphrase......this is the first problem..lol.  It of course would not let me continue and Im dead...The QT interface did not acknowledge the upgrade either so I assume I have to reinstall that also. So, to simplify this here are my questions.
1) How to recover my bitshares
2) do I need to rebuild the QT wallet or can it be done yet for (Linux)
3) What in the world did I do wrong here??
Thank-you for the assistance.

Heard and understood.....of course I understood when I signed up......

spoke to soon it seemed to run all afternoon and it dropped off again and wont login....not sure what the issue is except maybe to much latency? whats funny is my cpu is on the X11 port with no problems.

Alright now its getting stranger.....port 4444 shows dead but 4445 and 4446 both work. Only problem is the diff is probably to high for my little 5 chip grids.  I dont see a way to post a screen shot but  I have all three listed and
only 4444 shows dead. If someone else has a Gridseed Orb to try it out with would be cool. In the meantime Im going to google this around and see if I can find any hints. I dont really want to change their configuration file as
it works with every other pool and I dont want to frig up the mining OS.

Ive been trying to logon to your pool and the low diff script port reports dead. I  have two gridseeds and they wont do X11. Also trying to compile a version of cpu miner to access the X11, but the script option would be easier.