With ButShares2-light installed on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS the dropdown menus appear as all black rectangles with no readable labels. I am able to randomly select items from the menu, but without being able to read the labels it is unusable.

Is there a way to fix this?

It's a bug. You can use arrows up & down and you will be able to see all the choices as they get highlighted in the main window.

You mean to tell me it's not on the DEX yet!!???

sahkan-bitshares June 2017 Witness Update:

I have updated my witness node to the latest (2 JUN 2017), and utlized all RAM savings that the Devs have been working on for the past few weeks.

The latest update on my full node is 5-31-17 (tagged release by @abit ), the RAM usage is now over 17GB.
Web wallet updated to the latest 2.0.170522 (remember to back up your wallet!)
- You can access the web wallet here:  https://dexnode.net
- If you are already using a light or web wallet and need another api server to improve the performance, add my api server: wss://dexnode.net/ws (in SETTINGS, ACCESS)

An average usage on the server is 30+ web wallets and 60+ websocket connections for the Light Wallets.

Both seed nodes updated to the latest Tag release.
- Los Angeles, CA  23.92.53.182:1776
- Maidenhead, UK 192.121.166.162:1776

The following feeds black swanned and are no longer provided: KRW, SGD, HKD

Peerplays:
For the last 9 days or so a handful of BTS witnesses and other SAs were involved in the testing of the new graphene based Peerplays platform. A lot of work went into it improving both, our skills and the platform. Peerplays mainnet is now scheduled to be released sometime between Tuesday, June 6, 2017 at 06:00 UTC and Wednesday, June 7 at 06:00 UTC.

As a thank you for your support of my witness a quick contest! Win 1,000 BTS!
Rules:
1. You have voted for my witness: sahkan-bitshares
2. Contest runs through 30 JUN 2017
3. You just have to guess (by replying to this post) where my nickname SAHKAN comes from or what it means Good Luck!
4. The first person to get it right wins 1,000BTS and I will PM him/her the instructions to get their BTS.

Have a great BitShares week!

That's awesome! So let's investigate a bit:

To learn about my new gaming company go here:
http://consumerreality.services

And according to the webpage their office is located here:

North American Office:
8605 Santa Monica Blvd. #13160
West Hollywood, CA 90069
USA

Google it! And and let me know what you see...

Quote from: sahkan on June 01, 2017, 05:36:22 pm

My full node runs at 16.5GB RAM now. (It's on the 96GB RAM dedicated server)

Is this using the latest core release?

Yes, it was at 16.9GB RAM before the update.

Great work! I updated my nodes to the latest.

 

It seems that everyone continues to peg DEX to USD. Why not CNY? My point being that DEX runs on BitShares ecosystem and though I understand the relationship of BTS to USD, we should stick with BTS as that's what gives it value. If we relate everything to bitUSD, why even have BTS? The danger of using some bitUSD : BTS ratio is that if ever anyone can manipulate BTS to be worth $.0000000001, anything that uses BTS from the reserve pool will run it dry in a matter of minutes (unlikly though, I'm just showing an extreme example here..)

I also understand that we want to have stable fees etc., I believe if we can find balance in the BTS ecosystem among witness pay, worker pay and fees, we should be able to run DEX based on BTS only with a healthy reserve pool.