I have tested and found that now the force settlement feature is actually enabled for TCNY.

according to the design, force settlement/allow witness to provide feed features should both be disabled because of the change but actually not, this is another bug and when in the future the bug be fixed these features will be actually disabled for TCNY, right?

Lack of detailed document of "feature description" or "feature requirement" yet. "We" need to make one, otherwise the code is correct in any case.

so I wonder whether there are ways to reserve these features for TCNY, as they are important for a smartcoin.

To "reserve these features" it may need a hard fork.

I think they're following the github. However there is no much information on the newest release like before.
BM mentioned that CNX will announce something soon in the "witness alert and status" thread.

This release:

Changes:
* Hardfork to fix hung blockchain
* removed debug spam

Last release:

This release 2.0.151216b fixes a dereference issue in the previous release, 2.0.151216. The following users are advised to upgrade:
* All users running 2.0.151216
* All users running 2.0.151209 or earlier
Replaying the blockchain will be required, and should occur automatically.

Is there any reason why v0.9.3c would not open?  I installed as suggested and the client screen has been showing 'starting BitShares' for many hours now.  I've tried restarting the application but its the same result.

I may just be being impatient!  But thought it worth checking.....

So you need to try the steps described in page 1 of this thread.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20197.msg260405.html#msg260405
(Looks like you've tried it last time with a success, now try again.)

After opened, you may need to try the steps in this post https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,20822.0.html

Quote from: abit on January 04, 2016, 05:20:14 pm

Thanks for the efforts.
"Review begins in 14 days" Can it be earlier?

Sure .. but only with a new proposal. I think we should take the 2 weeks and figure out what to do with the funds and not rush into something .. This would also allow me to properly code a script and test it until the funds are release (or not)

It makes sense to me.

Maybe you can enlighten me about a detail: Is the review period right before the expiration of a proposal or is the review period first and no one can vote within that period?

I think it's more likely to be the former.

* click on the "please make backup to continue" link -> a "no translation for" message on the button
* click on the button -> a "download" button and a "missing translation" button
* main page -> 2 "missing translation" message on the list below
* the "5KPX..." displayed near the bar-code is the private key of the account or what, why does it change every time reloading the page?
* lots of "missing translation" in the "send" page.

//Edit: language was set to Chinese by default on my phone. It looks better after set language to English.
//Edit2: if language set to Chinese, it shows only spaces at where should be some words. But the date/time displayed in Chinese is fine.

Wow! v0.5.0 client ran successfully and I was able to import my backup!  Picture a big ginger bearded baldy skipping around the house, kissing inanimate objects and dancing with anyone that gets in the way....thank you so much for all the help and especially your persistence @xeroc , @cube  & @abit !!

So i really want to get this next bit right.  Please correct me if i'm wrong;

Delete the Bitshares folder in roaming
uninstall v0.5.0
install v0.9.3c
run v0.9.3c
import new v0.5.0 backup file
export new v0.9.3c backup file
import new v0.9.3c backup file into openledger

Is that right?

My suggestions as above.

Quote from: xeroc on January 04, 2016, 08:28:06 am

Ho does this help AT ALL?
If you only allow to vote for 3 witnesses, then we have 3 witnesses from china, 3 from europe and 3 from the US. all of them will have LESS votes and will be easier to overtake

not easier than now, because each people's voting power will decrease.
diversify will help a global DAC,

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The point of DAC is not decentralization, the point is to make profits. To take care of the profitability we need somebody to make good decisions on blockchain parameters. This is what committee is for. It is not very reasonable to do decentralization just because decentralization. You have to always justify it.

DAC surely should be dencentralized, otherwise it should not be named DAC,

actually in my view currently Bitshares 2.0 is more like a country than a company, because its revenue comes from the fees paid by the shareholders, in another word, more exactly the fees can be called tax.

A person who only owns bitUSD is a user, not a shareholder. Make more use of the 'products' but not the 'shares' would let the platform look more like a company.

for a company, normally the more revenue, the better, but this is not the case for a country. high revenue of a country often means high tax rate, and high burden of the people. these all always deactivate the economy.

at first Bitshares announced to be a decentralized autonomous company, but up to now it is not really decentralized yet, we need to improve further, we need to keep updating the management infrastructure to what we really needed,  but anyway decentralization is needed. as a company, we should not put the company under the control of CEO himself. the CEO should report to the board and work under the supervision of the board.

Is the committee in BitShares purposed to be something like the board in a company? I'm not sure.

Sorry for hijacking the thread but it doesn't work. First I click on withdraw, then page down on the red withdraw button.
Even though I am logged into bitsharestalk on he other tab, sharebits complains that I have to log in. After clicking on the log in button it takes me back to sharebits.io and the thing starts from step 1 again.

Me too.