When an account name is registered on the blockchain, if a pay rate between 0-100 is specified then that account becomes registered as a delegate. Each delegate has a variable amount of stake voting for them. If a delegate has enough votes where the total stake voting for them is in the top 101 vote balances out of the set of registered delegates, then that delegate node will be included in each round as an active block signer. When these vote balances change, i.e. a delegate has votes revoked and are  "fired" from the top 101, each client will sync that information and reflect the new set of active 101 delegates accordingly.

So the list of delegates is a list that doesn't get any smaller, only larger, as new delegate accounts are registered. The set of active delegates is dynamic based on the amount of stake each delegate has voting for them. Anyone can change their vote and their changes will be reflected when that trx is included in the next block. To change your vote, send a transfer (to yourself for example).  There are multiple voting schemes you can specify when you transfer your stake: vote_none, vote_all, vote_random, and vote_recommended. The GUI client has a vote button to make this process simpler.

The default is "vote_recommended", which I believe means that your votes are cast based on the voting slates published by the delegates that you approve of.

Quote from: robrigo on January 31, 2015, 11:15:53 pm

The low numbers of women in Computer Science and programming professions are probably also a contributing factor. Agree with lil_jay890 though; there are many professional and very successful women in todays age. There really isn't a whole lot of people interested in crypto as a whole, relative to the world's population.

Do all the men in crypto have a computer science and programming background? I sure don't do you?

I wasn't inferring everybody does but there's a fair amount of people in the space that do. Also, the low numbers of women studying those fields would indicate that there isn't a particularly big interest in software among females, and at the end of the day crypto is another software project.

The countdown is over.
Still nothing show up
if countdown is over,then show nothing,whats the point of the countdown?

 I see 12 hours, 46 minutes remaining.

You've got my vote!

We literally don't even have a website they can visit for information at the moment. Don't get pissed at other people, our publicity sucks because our marketing sucks. We're working to improve it and the new website will hopefully change things and make people start taking us seriously.

instead of feeling like BitShares isn't getting noticed and getting concerned for your investment, go out and evangelize if you believe in the technology, principles, and dev team. Talk to locals, join a meet up, write a letter to people with a following like Max Keiser, build a tool if you can code, etc. The extent to which BitShares becomes prolific and noticed is on us as the community.

You made a great case for bitUSD... their mistake cost you not only time but $180! With bitUSD, it would have only been the time and inconvenience.

All delegates should update their delegate nodes and be sure to restart bash, gdb, bitshares, python, etc.

You can check which processes are running the vulnerable libc by executing the following command after you update libc to the latest version.

lsof | grep libc | grep DEL | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq

This vulnerability has been in the wild since 2000!