Here's my experience with 0.7.0 so far:

- Download the linux version, realize it's just the cli, not the gui. Have to compile it.

- For some reason, BitShares 0.7.0 decides it's a good idea to resynchronize the whole blockchain. 5-6 hours go by.

- When I come back home and check on the progress, the wallet needs to be unlocked. No problem -- or so I thought;
   The unlock never really happened, the little dots were going for 7 minutes, at which point I closed the window.
   The process didn't die. A pkill BitS later and it's gone.

- Re-run BitShares, let it sync the remaining 14 days that were left. Realize ~90% of my funds are missing.


Guys, I'm sorry but this is easily the most buggy piece of software I've had the displeasure of interacting with over the last decade and a half. And I've used software. A lot.

The only two positive things:
  - The wallet appears to be very noticeably faster.
  - No segfault this time (previously [0.6.0] it segfaulted while syncing the blockchain)

FYI this is on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.


Besides removing all files/dirs except wallet/, is there a way to convince the software to properly reflect my funds once again? I realize they are there, as long as I have the private keys (which I do, in backup plus the accounts do show up, it's the balance that's wrong)

^^ Is there any logic to the X.Y.Z versioning?

Because having 0.7.0 and then 0.8.0 a week or two later seems a bit.... strange.

Almost as if we're rushing madly all the way to 1.0.

Quote from: btswildpig on March 19, 2015, 10:23:57 am

question 1 :

Is ripple out of users ? why do you need to find more users on a BitShares forum ? 

Ripple is design for whole world, welcome all the people from other community

Get the fire & acid arrows!

Quote from: karnal on March 18, 2015, 03:09:19 pm

Since there isn't any proxying support so far, I'm wondering, what information can an adversary who can monitor everything that goes in and out learn ?
Ie,
- Accounts & their balances
- Transactions made & received
Ideally the adversary would be able to learn nothing more than "this person uses bitshares". Can some developer confirm this to be the case, and possibly comment on the eventual future inclusion of proxy (SOCKS5 preferred) support in the client?

accounts & balances are stored on the blockchain .. obviously .. so you cannot gain extra information from listening to the machines ..
if you are connected to many machines you may be able to identify an ip address that might have access to funds and identify a person/organization that holds an address

you may gain information about which IP addresses are delegates and which ones run a default full-node using timing-analysis

You could, if the information is sent in the clear, ie after sending funds from an account in your wallet to anywhere. Transactions that you receive could be for anyone, they end up on everyone's computer by design, but transactions being broadcast FROM your computer? Very simple to figure out what's happening there..

Is the connection to the bitshares network encrypted? If not, why, and are there plans to implement it?

Since there isn't any proxying support so far, I'm wondering, what information can an adversary who can monitor everything that goes in and out learn ?

Ie,

- Accounts & their balances
- Transactions made & received


Ideally the adversary would be able to learn nothing more than "this person uses bitshares". Can some developer confirm this to be the case, and possibly comment on the eventual future inclusion of proxy (SOCKS5 preferred) support in the client?

As a privacy-aware netizen, I do most of my browsing through the Tor network. Browsing this site is no exception,

Since the beginning, I've met with "This request has been denied for security reasons. If you believe this was in error, please contact support." at least a few times every day.

It could be my imagination but lately, this is happening more and more frequently.


Please keep access to the forum through Tor possible, there are some here who're 100% legit and access via tor 100% of the time.

That did it! Thanks!

I like being able to go back and forth between a wide variety of assets as they cycle against each other in the market.

I can switch between BTS, BTC, Gold, Silver, CNY, EUR, and USD for about a penny in ten seconds as often as I like.

I can also create my own basket of currencies and adjust the mix as often as I like for pennies.

And I never encounter the delays, costs and risks of passing through fiat space.

Where else can you do that?

This.