That looks really good lakerta...much better than I could have pulled off.  I'm glad you did this instead of me

Given the format is JSON and I can parse JSON in C++ with ease, I think I will simply create a bounty for someone to import the JSON from blockchain directly and we can skip the .csv step.

Easy to redo the instructions showing how to cut/paste their JSON unencrypted wallet into a text file.  One thing to note is that if a wallet has multiple keypairs it will export them all, some of which will not correspond with the AGS shares transaction.  If that doesn't matter, I'll get on revising the doc.

I will provide an extra 30 PTS to convert these instructions into a webpage / pull request for invictus.io that looks clean and professional. 

Working on it!

Otherwise the instructions look good.

So did I win? 

I'd like to invest in AGS but I'm very long on this sort of tech and would prefer to have them connected to an entirely offline paper wallet that has never been exposed to the network.  I'm not sure how to do that considering that to buy in you must send BTC from an active wallet.  Is there any way to achieve this?

So any ID's I create between now and launch will go away at launch, and I will have to mine them again?  By mine you mean simply create a new identity, right?

Thanks again for your replies...

Go to Cryptsy.com

Despite the "beware cryptsy!!!!!1!" threads right under here? 

OK, I'm an idiot muddling through all this crypto stuff, living in interesting times.  I'd like to trade some BTC for Protoshares, still figuring that one out.  Client didn't even connect without me diving deep into a forum and using the debug feature.  DEBUG!

Now I want to check out this Keyhote stuff.  Download the software.  No instructions.  No idea what any of it means.  Go to Keyhote forum.  Pithy, obscure topis about angelshares and founder this and that and NO basic, this is what this is and why you do it and how you do it. 

Pretty confused.  Grinning, interested, excited, but still damn confused. 

tl;dr I just installed Keyhote.  What should I do next?
 

Hi Guys, interested in establishing a small position in PTS.  I'm very interested in the possibility of distributing many centrally controlled functions of the internet; from what I read that's what bitshares will be all about.

I've been using BTC for a while, but I've never used an online exchange before and frankly it's freaking me out...you read so many horror stories.

So, which exchange would you recommend for a noobish buyer wanting to trade maybe .25 btc into protoshares? Also the only link I could find for wallet software was broken.  Damned if I'm gonna leave my balance on an exchange....