To All Inhabitants of The PeerPlays Universe!!!!!
New Witness in town.
Seed Node To Come
API Node To Come
I’m asking for your vote.

To me being a witness is not all about money to me… it’s about making a contribution to society. And nothing beats making a living making by making a contribution to society. That is what I believe being part of the blockchain revolution should be about.

As I explained in an article I wrote a couple months ago ( https://steemit.com/news/@educatedwarrior/blockchain-techonology-is-more-than-a-decentralized-database-application) … we humans could either be enslaved or liberated by blockchain technology. We can either sit back, watch things happen and throw our hands up when the outcome is not what we want; or we could make things happen and chart a course for a better future.

All my life I have never been a person to sit back and watch things happen. The proof is in the pudding for many of my achievements…. such as earning All-American in athletics, mechanical engineering degree, martial arts blackbelt, etc. It takes discipline and dedication to be successful in any endeavor and I exemplify that.


My experience with block chain technology started when I went to my first Bitcoin conference held 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia USA. There I met a number of people I remain friends with to this day. On a side note, I got an opportunity to speak with Dan Larimer before he wrote his white paper on Invictus.. met Adam Levine from "Let's Talk Bitcoin". The things that were discussed blew my mind at that time and to see it all come to play is even more mind blowing.

My involvement in blockchain technology began with mining alt-coins and bitcoins. Then I single-handedly ran mining pools for over 20 alt-coins. Before Docker containers were available, I used puppet to script configuration of my mining pools. This allowed me to single handedly run 20 mining pools at the same time.

I’m the type of person that tries to figure out things myself first, and I know when to get help. As a teammate, I pull my own weight.

OBJECTIVES
As part of the witness team, I will develop collaborative relationships with other witnesses. I will invest in infrastructure to support scalability needs.

One thing I have learned over my years of IT experience is being well-rounded gives you an advantage in developing solutions to problems. As blockchain technology gets more advanced good problem-solving skills are key and I will use my God given talents to contribute.

So if you vote for me as a witness this is what you get.
• Dedicated with a PASSION
• Over 20 years’ experience in Information Technologies including programming, database design, UNIX scripting, dev ops, computer networking.
• Experience with mitigating DDOS attacks

INFRASTRUCTURE
• Dedicated Witness Node
o 256 GB RAM (upgradeable to 512 GB)
o 256 GB SSD
o 32 Cores at 3.0 Ghz (upgradeable to 64 cores)

• Backup Witness Node
o 32 GB RAM
o 256 GB SSD
o 12 Cores at 3.0 Ghz

• 1 GBPS Fiber-optic Internet Uplink
• Smart Router with DDOS protection

As you can see, the infrastructure I currently have will support Peerplays for now and future growth. After my witness node is up and running I will work with the Peerplays team to get a seed node and api node set up as well.

Please vote for my witness “educatedwarrior-witness”. I will contribute my God given talents to make the world a better place.

I followed the instructions here step by step and I was only able to get 5% of my balance into the new Bitshares 2.0 wallet.

If there are any other people having the same issue, please post here.   
Also vote up my post on steemit here -  https://steemit.com/bitshares/@educatedwarrior/my-experience-upgrading-for-bitshares-x-version-0-4-23-1-to-bitshares-2-0-instructions-included

Some original Invictus investors I have spoken to are getting frustrated trying for months to get their funds transferred.   I suggest the dev team set up a more organize method of helping resolving people's issues.

Me personally, I have my balance displayed in 0.9.3c on the screen teasing me...   "Here I am, but you can't have me"

One step in the instructions I saw was to transfer the BTS back to yourself.  Can't do that if the old blockchain is down.  Correct?

@mrbildo

no need to be nervous .. your funds are still on the blockchain and as long as you have a backup of your wallet your funds will be accessible again ..

Please help me.  @xeroc    Somebody?

I"ve tried all of this...

Migration to BitShares 2.0 - Incorrect Balances - "Know How"
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20822.0.html

Balance Missing Because of Old Wallet File
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,9194.30.html

I'm attempting to import a wallet backed up in the Json format using Bitshares 2.0 desktop app.  I created a new wallet and attempting to use "Restore/Import" feature.

I get the error  "Cannot Read property toAddressString' of null

Would definitely appreciate your help.

Thanks to bts-tv, bitbud, monperlerin, onceuponatime, liondani, and puppies  for your donations.  I really appreciate your help.     Currently recouped   0.43% of my stolen BTS.    I have a long way to go but it's definitely better than nothing.   

 

Doing some research on transactions.  The first person who could identify the exchange that owns this address will be offered a bounty after it has been verified.

The PTS address is - PcHTgdPVkX83SGfzHF6KN34tsZpy3KbDzm

Thanks,

EW

Suppose you walk through a city with a $100 bill in your physical wallet. Back at home, you notice that your wallet is gone, probably stolen by a pickpocket. What do you do?
Ask people on the street to reimburse you for your loss?
Accuse the wallet-maker for not providing you with a theft-proof wallet?
Accuse the FED for not making theft-proof banknotes?
Ask another thief to find the pickpocket and steal your money back?

IMHO I think there is a better analogy.

This technology is focused towards replacing the banking system, investment banking, and brokerage ... not merely physical wallets - am I not correct? 

And your analogy of Fed theft proof bank notes ... come on now.   You telling me accounts that hold money market funds do not have fraud protection?

Better Analogy (Banking):   A cyber criminal gets your checking account information and makes withdrawals from your account.   You call the Banks fraud department.  The bank credits your money back and investigates the stolen funds.  The bank has a way of verifying if the funds were stolen or not.

So my question is where is fraud protection for Bitshares?   Doesn't appear to exist presently but I was hoping someone would be working on it .. but from your response above it's not very encouraging for myself or others that are not a technically savvy.   

I hope you guys could figure this out because I supported Invictus from the start and was on board with the vision ... and if you guys are shooting for mainstream adoption you will have to have a solution for issues that currently exist in the current financial system... otherwise you will not see mainstream adoption.

Also, I really hope you guys could be considerate enough to help me recoup my losses ... I think that shouldn't be too much to ask from one of your original investors and long-time supporters.  And hope to continue supporting, depending how everything goes.  Also realize if I were using the current financial system (banking or brokerage), this would be a non-issue.



   

The new PTS wallet is cool.   If someone could help me get my 2080 old PTS stolen back, that would be even cooler.        
@alphabar

That would be 2080 * 567 = 1179360 new PTS.