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General Discussion / Re: BTS Wallet?
« on: August 31, 2016, 12:23:57 pm »
Hi Barnstrom, Welcome
You have actually shown up at a great time as having your BTS off the exchange and in a local wallet will give you a share in the Peerplays project!! the snapshot period starts on the 1st of Sept and goes to the 16th of Sept; at some random time within that period the Peerplays team will take a picture/snapshot of everyones current account balances and allocate them a share in the Peerplays network proportional to the amount of Bitshares you hold... So nice timing
Which Wallet?
In Regards to your question: i personally use the Bitshares lite client available at:https://bitshares.org/download/ (installs to you computer and uses websockets so no need to sync the blockchain) - i really like it and i would recommend it for you..
Other good options are https://openledger.info/ and https://secure.freedomledger.com <- both of these are webclients and run within your browser
Which ever of those option you choose; it will walk you through backing up you wallet when you first register an account; make sure you do these steps and save your wallet in a secure location; also don't forget your password.
How to Withdraw BTS from Polo
When you withdraw from POLO you will be asked to provide an account name; this is the username you registered when you signed up to Bitshares; if your not sure goto the 'SEND' tab and look in the from field; this is you current account; it is possible to have multiple accounts in the one wallet and if this is the case you can go to the 'HOME' tab and look at the accounts sections.
Once you know your account, goto POLO, hit withdraw, enter you account name and the amount of BTS you wan to withdraw (Start with a small amount say 5 or 10 BTS just to be sure; then once you have confirmed that it works you will have confidence to withdraw as much as you like).
The above will work for all native Bitshares assets I.E BTS, BitUSD, BitCNY ....
What is the Deposit tab then?
The 'deposit'/'withdraw' tab within the wallet will allow you to send in other asset that are not native Bitshares assets (other digital currencies that are not Bitshares related; Doge, Steem, Bitcoin...); for example if you send 'DOGE' to the address specified under the Openledger tab; Openledger.info will issue your account with Open.DOGE <- this is known as a UIA and is effectively DOGE coin backed by openledger on the Bitshares network; so you could hold/trade/transfer your Open.DOGE on the bitshares network and then when your are ready to withdraw you would do so on the withdraw tab and specify a DOGE address; openledger.info would then exchange you open.DOGE to DOGE on a 1:1 basis.
Hope this helps; remember: make sure you backup; don't lose you password and start by withdrawing a small amount just to make sure you have the hang of it!!
Cheers,
GC
You have actually shown up at a great time as having your BTS off the exchange and in a local wallet will give you a share in the Peerplays project!! the snapshot period starts on the 1st of Sept and goes to the 16th of Sept; at some random time within that period the Peerplays team will take a picture/snapshot of everyones current account balances and allocate them a share in the Peerplays network proportional to the amount of Bitshares you hold... So nice timing
Which Wallet?
In Regards to your question: i personally use the Bitshares lite client available at:https://bitshares.org/download/ (installs to you computer and uses websockets so no need to sync the blockchain) - i really like it and i would recommend it for you..
Other good options are https://openledger.info/ and https://secure.freedomledger.com <- both of these are webclients and run within your browser
Which ever of those option you choose; it will walk you through backing up you wallet when you first register an account; make sure you do these steps and save your wallet in a secure location; also don't forget your password.
How to Withdraw BTS from Polo
When you withdraw from POLO you will be asked to provide an account name; this is the username you registered when you signed up to Bitshares; if your not sure goto the 'SEND' tab and look in the from field; this is you current account; it is possible to have multiple accounts in the one wallet and if this is the case you can go to the 'HOME' tab and look at the accounts sections.
Once you know your account, goto POLO, hit withdraw, enter you account name and the amount of BTS you wan to withdraw (Start with a small amount say 5 or 10 BTS just to be sure; then once you have confirmed that it works you will have confidence to withdraw as much as you like).
The above will work for all native Bitshares assets I.E BTS, BitUSD, BitCNY ....
What is the Deposit tab then?
The 'deposit'/'withdraw' tab within the wallet will allow you to send in other asset that are not native Bitshares assets (other digital currencies that are not Bitshares related; Doge, Steem, Bitcoin...); for example if you send 'DOGE' to the address specified under the Openledger tab; Openledger.info will issue your account with Open.DOGE <- this is known as a UIA and is effectively DOGE coin backed by openledger on the Bitshares network; so you could hold/trade/transfer your Open.DOGE on the bitshares network and then when your are ready to withdraw you would do so on the withdraw tab and specify a DOGE address; openledger.info would then exchange you open.DOGE to DOGE on a 1:1 basis.
Hope this helps; remember: make sure you backup; don't lose you password and start by withdrawing a small amount just to make sure you have the hang of it!!
Cheers,
GC