No, I haven't tried 4.23.1 yet.  This was the first time I'd compiled from source, and am not confident how to update.  Could you advise?  Or should I move this to the stupid questions thread....?

I can be such an idiot! 

After stumbling onto Bitshares just over a month ago I quickly locked in, then became consumed with familiarizing myself (and trying to keep pace) with the terrain of new words and concepts on this forum. 

And with a bazillion questions whose answers I'm not even equipped to evaluate:  Did bytemaster validate the Nash Equilibrium?  Solve the problem of consensus?  And if so, how does that change things on the ground?   How does all of this translate into non violence, or even how is any of it applicable to those who aren't software developers, crypto-financial speculators, or those creating digitizable assets?         onandonandon blah blah

I finally revisited the Further Reading section of the wiki, along with much older posts on this forum, and it hit: 

How has obviously been articulated more than thoroughly (re:my silly previous post).  What you are all actually doing blows my mind.


*And thank you, Gonzo, for taking the time for your version of the "how" pitch. 

from https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=10828.30

Quote from: mira on October 31, 2014, 10:59:20 pm

Quote from: bytemaster on October 31, 2014, 10:13:37 pm

We hodl these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and Property....

Could we change the nouns?

Are you the mythical crypto female???

Instead of derailing the other thread, thought I'd answer your question here.  I highly doubt that I'm "the" mythical crypto female, as I haven't done anything to warrant mythical, or even noteworthy status (at least not until PeerTracks is up and running  )

I don't meet any of the criteria of your ideal early adopter, yet here I am, and can offer one anomaly's perspective:

I'm not sure that it's the Why bytemaster referred to in an earlier post that will attract most of the early adopters, the need for systems that contribute to freedom and justice is apparent. (but how software can do that is not yet apparent to many)
I think the Why is most useful as reminders to those already amidst the trials and travails of early adoption.

 And the What that toast explained as "experimental financial instruments which use cryptocurrency + price information to make decentralized digital tokens that can price-track a dollar, oz of gold, etc without a counterparty" doesn't help us plebians much. 

I think the How, and not just how the features of BitShares work, but How is it going to change the world is what most needs more thorough articulating.

We hodl these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and Property....

Could we change the nouns?

I have the same question for transferring from btc38. 

I do have a registered BTSX account.  So do I just withdraw the funds and enter my account name mira as the one to withdraw to?  And when I withdraw the PTS to my wallet the imprint/info of previous snapshot will automatically transfer with it?

...and then, to backup my wallet, I just export the .json file?

edit:  and as long as I have the .json file saved somewhere, if something goes wonky with the wallet application during an upgrade or for some other reason, I could reimport that .json file and account balances etc. will be saved, correct? 

Just want to make sure I have the most basic rudiments understood.

Thanks!

Yes, I was following the instructions on github, not bitshares wiki:

https:// github  .com/dacsunlimited/bitsharesx/blob/master/BUILD_UBUNTU.md

at the end of the page it reads:   
"The binary will be located at programs/qt_wallet/BitSharesX The wallet can be installed as a local application capable of handling xts: URLs like so:

sudo cp programs/qt_wallet/BitSharesX /usr/local/bin/"


It took me a while to realize it had installed but was just in a different folder...

(apologies, as newbie, don't know how to post a link properly here yet)

These steps, modified slightly from those on github, worked seamlessly for me.  (for BitSharesX using QT wallet)

(Thanks to davidpbrown for clarification in this post: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=7414.0)

I'm posting it in the hope it could simplify the process for other linux mint/ubuntu users grappling with how to build... 

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cmake git libreadline-dev uuid-dev g++ libdb++-dev libdb-dev zip libssl-dev openssl build-essential python-dev autotools-dev libicu-dev libbz2-dev libboost-dev libboost-all-dev
git clone https:// github .com/dacsunlimited/bitsharesx.git    [remove the spaces in the github address, forum won't let me post the link]
cd bitsharesx
git submodule init
git submodule update
cmake
make

sudo apt-get install npm qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools nodejs-legacy
cd bitsharesx
cmake -DINCLUDE_QT_WALLET=ON
cd programs/web_wallet
sudo npm install -g lineman
sudo npm install
cd -
make buildweb
make BitSharesX

make forcebuildweb

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Instructions said the  BitShareX binary would be installed in programs/qt_wallet/, but it was in programs/qt_wallet/bin/


Trying to get build to work was like spending days trying (unsuccesfully) to learn about partial differential equations to finally execute a process that ended up being as easy as tying my shoes :-/  -- it just took changing a few keystrokes.

Account Key: BTSX8QrUhqF4mRmarsMF8cezYhzBo5FCDPM1VLqVWGVJAVNQM3qZEG

Thank you!