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Seeing that Operation PitchFork 2.0 has just been announced and is underway; IMO it would make sense starting a Pregame to-do check list.
Doing this will help avoid countless and redundant threads of people asking "How do I import my old BTS wallet to the new one?"
So maybe we can use this thread as a brainstorm for a temporary  "how to" template and then create a Sticky of it once it's cleaned up and organized?

- What Steps Should I Take Saving My Old BTS Wallet Before Migrating?
First you should update to the most current BTS wallet (v0.9.2). Download links here...  https://github.com/bitshares/bitshares/releases/tag/bts%2F0.9.2
*note- please be aware BTS may have one more wallet update from v0.9.2 making migrating easier... so these steps may have to be done one more time*

(Windows) Here's a quick how-to for updating older wallet versions to v0.9.2

1. For your current client version, copy the C:\Users\*account name*\AppData\Roaming\Bitshares\wallet directory as a backup in another dir.  (Export your wallet as .json as well for safety).  If you don't have the wallets dir, create it by importing your .json file & running the client.

(IMPORTANT-Make sure you're 120% positive you did step 1 correclty BEFORE proceeding!!!)

2.  Uninstall your current version by deleting the C:\Users\*account name*\AppData\Roaming\Bitshares folder. Reboot Windows

3.  Install v0.9.2.  Before running the new client do these initial steps...
     a) go to your C:\Program Files\Bitshare\bin folder and right click BitShares.exe, go to properties>compatibility and check mark  "Run this program as Admin". 
          Please do this same step for the bitshares_client.exe.
     b) Make sure firewalls are set to allow Bitshares.exe and are not blocking it. Set it to allow for "Private" and "Public" network access (just in case).
 
4.  Now launch the BTS wallet (click yes when Admin rights pop-up)  and let it download and sync the network (*fingers crossed)

5.  If wallet sync was successful... Close the program... go back to C:\Users\*account name*\AppData\Roaming\Bitshares\wallet and proceed to copy and paste your old wallet
     backup (from step 1) over the newest Bitshares dir.

6.  Run the new client again, enter password, allow it to re-scan for transaction history and you should be up and running.

- Where Can I Get The New 2.0 Wallet?
Actually...  you don't need to download anything!
BitShares 2.0 front-end (UI) is now browser-based, so continue using your favorite Firefox, Chrome or Windows browsers.

If you want to help support the networks back-end, you can either download the full node software (witness node)
or the GUI and host your own wallet (graphene-ui).
Both are hosted here on github   _____link to github?_____

- I Have Multiple Accounts In My Current Wallet,  Now What?
You can import all of your accounts and funds easily.
Under Bitshares 2.0 you'll be given a choice as to which "New" account you would like your previous balances/funds transferred to.

- What Steps Are Involved To Transferring My Account(s) Into Graphene BTS 2.0?
Upon opening the BTS2.0 wallet (per web browser) you'll be prompted to import the wallet data that you exported from BTS1.

***Note*** Importing your wallet data does NOT mean you're uploading your wallet details to some other's server.
All key management is secured on your end and is stored within your local browser database.
Hence, the browser will offer a tool to help make regular backups as often as you'd like!

- I Currently Have a UIA. What Steps Should I Take Before Migrating?
Erm .. None!


- What If I Still Have Unclaimed BTS From The Genesis and/or
   Unclaimed Vested BTS From The Merger?
   Should I Claim My Stack From The Genesis Before Migrating To Bitshares 2.0?
Genesis stake will move over as is. All vesting balances should report correctly and still appear as vesting in BTS 2.0

- What's The Status Regarding Privacy of Transactions in 2.0?  Give Me The tl;dr?
There will be Blinded, Stealth, and Stealth-blinded transactions.

Blinded:  transactions will "hide" the amount and keep everything else readable by everyone
Stealth: addresses remove the identity of the receiver
Stealth-Blinded: is a transaction with "hidden" amount to an unknown receiver.
***Keep in mind that stealth addresses will not work on web wallets AFAIK.

- Will Leaving My BTS On External Exchanges Be Converted Automatically Into BTS 2.0?
During any snapshot or migration period it's ALWAYS advised to move ALL funds off ANY External Exchanges and into your local wallet that YOU have the Keys too!!
Doing this is a sure fire way of keeping your funds safely in your control while going through the transition phase. In addition this will allow you to backup your nest egg!!
Otherwise, you're trusting any External Exchange (ie 3^rd Party) to honor the snapshot/migration period and hoping nothing gets botched up and lose your BTS funds.
***NOTE*** If you have BTS/Assets on the DEX (Bitshares Internal Decentralized Exchange) there's no need to remove funds.
                     Trading will stop and any outstanding funds will be refunded to the their appropriate accounts.


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Anyone in the Community can chime in and post additional info/answers/topics/questions.
Once compiled I'll take the posted information, clean it up, make a new Thread and see if we can't make it a sticky.

I find this could be very helpful, do you?
If so, please help 

Hmmm....

BTS is the #8 by market cap on CMC.
I am the #8 highest poster on this forum, and I'm buying BTS.
The number 8 is lucky in China, and is associated with fortune and prosperity.
China used to love BTS, this means China will now return to loving BTS!

It is a great conspiracy!  Clearly BTS will rise to 8888 sats as a result of this!


(This is how I imagine that conspiracy theorists come up with their ideas.  They just link random things together until it makes a circle, and then they think they have uncovered the secrets of reality). 

Hmmm, this was the same rational I used to find my ex-wife LOL

I was looking at these last week and was wondering the same thing.  The question I'm Concerned about is the ram? Isn't 2.0 being designed to allocate more ram to help the single thread cpu performance? The raspi I was looking at only had 512mb. I thought I read somewhere that 4gb would be the target allocation amount?
Either way, if these could be optimized for witness duties this would be really awesome!!!

First I'd like to say thank you for being part of the Beyond Bitcoin hangouts and YES, absolutely this is the best place to communicate with this awesome community.  So please feel free to ask any questions you may have.  You'll get plenty of responses! 

1. I'm contributing with the following amount of BTS: 5000
2. I'm contributing with the following resources (for testers only): n/a
3. I'm aiming to contribute following amount of transactions per second (for testers only): n/a

If I had the technical know how I would be all in doing the test phase.
So please, anyone willing to step up and become a tester to spread some nods around the globe and make this push happen!!   

Quote from: kenCode on September 07, 2015, 07:10:22 pm

@nethyb
@kenCode @cube @sudo @Akado @phillyguy @emailtooaj
 
This is 7 people so far willing to put in some BTS for this 100K tps LAN test.
Anybody else?

any estimation on how much it would cost in the end?

Based on nethyb's post of $1.68/hr that would be (at current rates) 362 BTS for each hour, not including time and labor...
I'm willing to chip in min 2500 BTS

Hello guys, I've been here since the beginning and i am happy that I'm still here.I ran into a small problem  windows 10 blocked 0.9.2 version from downloading, is there a way to fix this?

I had this same issue. Make sure to try this (if you haven't already)...
1) Make sure Windows Firewall is set to allow -- C:\program files\bitshares\bin\bitshares_client.exe  for both Private and Public Networks
2) Go the folder containing the Bitshares EXE and right click it >Properties>Compatability Tab> Check "Run as Admin". Do the same for the bitshares_client.exe

Once I did this I haven't had any issues running the client on Windows. Of course your mileage my vary 

*edit* just read your post again... are you not able to download the installation package or are you talking about d/l'ing the chain once installed?