Please Help. I can't do anything on Bitshares because I don't have BTS. I tried to make a trade and it wouldn't let me even though I used the option to pay the fee in OPEN:BTC. Now I can't even withdraw my BTC. I bought BTS on Bter but it won't let me withdraw it to fund my Bitshares account. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. At this point I'm pretty frustrated by the whole thing and would just like to get my BTC out. Thanks.
-Brett
Welcome tdboston,
sorry to hear this bad first experience!
Let's see...
First let's try again to buy some BTS with your OPEN.BTC:
go to the BTS : OPEN.BTC market here ->
https://bitshares.openledger.info/#/market/BTS_OPEN.BTCInstead of using all of yours open.btc, try to make a buy with only half of it, using open.btc as fee too. (I suggest to use only half of your btc to be sure that you have enough to both buy bts and pay for the fee)
About Bter...Bter is not really trading BTS 2.0
You should not trust or leave any funds into that exchange IMO.
The best thing you can do now, is sell back the bts you bought on bter, and use those btc to buy bts in another exchange.
Once you have your btc back on bter, you can send them to poloniex and buy real bts there. Or you can even more easily use the "Bridge" option in the Bitshares wallet.
Open the bitshares wallet, go into your account page, in the left menu go into Deposit/Withdraw, in the Top Menu choose Blocktrades or Metaexchange (the latter atm has a better price), and in the "Bridge" section click on Deposit.
How does this Bridge works?
Basically you send your bitcoin to the address they give you, and they will credit your account with BTS! You can see the current conversion they will use for it.