RE: Explained: Why Aren't More EOS Token Holders Voting? (...and Why They Should)
I understand the importance that a decentralized blockchain has to offer and why voting is important. But I need more education in the details of why you need all of these different keys and also things like having to pay like possibly $40 for ram to just to get a user name. Not sure whyreal EOS tokens are not directly available in bitshares. And if as an engineer,with about forty years of experience with computers i cannot fidure it out, I can't imagine how someone with less technical experience would get anywhere. I still have a hard time with a lot of the details on how to get to a points where I can vote or get airdrops. I need a good source for explaining all of the steps needed to get real EOS tokens with voting and airdrop capability. Lots of what you see on the internet is how to do it before the mainnet launch. There is not a lot out there on how one do it after the mainnet launch. I'll keep plugging away at it. If you are interested in my progress you can follow it on my blog here; https://steemit.com/eos/@jayem/a-us-citizen-s-book-entry-into-steemit-on-how-to-get-into-the-eos-smart-contract-blockchain-part-4
the first time you drove a stick shift was really confusing, scary, and complicated, right? Remember having to use the e-brake on a hill for the first time? Total bonkers, right?
It's not much different here. These things are confusing and unfamiliar at first, but after a while they make perfect sense and you use them without even thinking about it. The multiple keys are there to protect you. You never use owner key for anything, but the active key you use as needed. That way if someone gets your active key, you can use your owner key to change it so they no longer have access to your account.
BitShares, in some ways, acts like a centralized exchange in that you send them tokens, they keep them for you and issue you an equivalent amount of a token they create representing that token you sent, like OPEN.EOSDAC. When you withdraw your EOSDAC, they then burn the equivalent amount of OPEN.EOSDAC and send you real EOSDAC.
To get the "real" tokens, just withdraw them to a wallet you control, like eos-voter I mentioned in my post. You may first need to create an EOS account and there are various services out there for doing that like this one.
This is very early on in the process, so expected polished tools right now is like expecting streaming video and Netflix in 1996. It's going to take some time to build out the protocols and then the tools on top of them.
I am motivated to get into this space, I just need details, like the one express in this comment, thanks. I'm not stopping until I get there, it just takes time, which is why you are not seeing people jump in in droves. I appreciate the hard work that youand others are doing. For me the energy I put into this I know is worthy, it is replace the bad energy with the good energy here. Thanks again. BTW, the first car that I have ever driven was a stick.