BitShares has many controls around market pegged assets (MPAs) and their ability to be “shorted into existence.” Some of those fields have long names and difficult to sort out abbreviations. I am hoping to prepare this document to help sort…

Do you want your own token? Who doesn’t? Here is how you can create your own token on the BitShares blockchain. This is called a “User Issued Asset” or UIA. For this tutorial, I will be using the BitShares public…

The BitShares-Core project uses Boost Test features to exercise the product. When starting the test, here are some interesting command line options: –run_test=module/test This will run a specific test. We organize them into modules, that usually match the filename for…

Here are some notes about the BitShares testnet. I just needed a single place to keep these: When syncing from scratch, it will seem to hang with the following message in the default log: 1753845ms th_a application.cpp:569 handle_block ] Got…

As Hash and Time Lock Contracts become more popular, they begin to be seen by the end user. For instance, wallets are now being built with this functionality. And that exposes the user to some unscrupulous actors that could cause…

These are version 3.1.0 binaries that connect to the BitShares TESTNET. I compiled these mainly for use by the BUIDL Boston hackathon, but there is nothing special about them. You can build them yourself from source by building the tags…

It was certainly a privilege to participate in Bitfest Amsterdam (22-September-2018). Here are the slides of the presentation I gave there. Bitshares will soon support Hashed Time-Lock Contracts (HTLC). The idea of HTLCs has its basis in a secret (called…

In the implementation I am working with, a bloom filter allows us to determine if a particular item has been selected from a set. Both the set and subset can be large. While speed is a benefit, the real benefit…

Here are some tricks that I use. They’re here because I need a place to quickly refer to them. Updating a fork with upstream changes: Reference: git fetch upstream git checkout master git merge upstream/master Interactive rebasing: git rebase…

I had the need to make a publish-subscribe mechanism in C++. So as is common, I looked around at other examples to see how others have done it and found a simple example courtesy of GitHubGist user makomweb. His didn’t…