How to Create a Bitshares Account

Besides a currency, Bitshares is known for its decentralized exchange, super-fast transaction speeds, low fees, and ability to handle lots of transactions.

It has an incredible community behind it and the very open-source nature of Bitshares allows people, businesses, and organizations to harness the power behind it to help their missions.

One of the awesome parts of the open-source nature of Bitshares is that there are multiple ways to access the Bitshares platform.

And if you are unhappy with the status and performance of any of these gateways you have the ability to create your own.

There is Openledger and Rudex with gateways to Bitshares. You also have the classic Bitshares Wallet.

To access Bitshares through the Openledger gateway use: https://openledger.io/dashboard
To access Bitshares through the Rudex gateway use: https://rudex.org/

I personally use the good ole fashioned: https://wallet.bitshares.org/#/

And it doesn't matter which way you access Bitshares, the account name you create is used for any gateway.

So click the gateway you want to use. We will use https://wallet.bitshares.org/#/ for this example.

This screen will show up:

Click "Create Account" in the upper right hand corner.

The below screen will pop-up and then you proceed to click "Create Account." [This is the Cloud Wallet method]

The following screen will pop-up with a generated password. Make sure to press that blue copy to clipboard button so you copy your entire password.

DO NOT screenshot your password. You will miss the last digits and not be able to get into your account. I had a friend lose Ethereum in his new Bitshares account because he did this and has no way to get access to his account besides guessing those last 6 digits.

Also, make sure to store your password in different places both offline and online. That way you should have access to your password in case of a incident like a USB drive getting erased or lost.

You can create basic Bitshares accounts for free and then premium (Life-time memberships) cost additional. We will be covering basic accounts in this tutorial.

Make sure your Bitshares username has a dash in it or this will show up:

Once you have created you Bitshares username selected, make sure to check the boxes indicating you have accomplished these tasks.

Click "Create Account" and you are on done.

You have created your Bitshares username using the Cloud Wallet method. How efficient and effective was that?

Now anytime you need your Bitshares, Openledger, or Rudex username, this is this username you use to sign-in.

Now if you want to back-up your account locally on your machine you can do so by doing the following process.

Click "Advanced" when you are at the Create Account screen

Once you click advanced a similar log-in screen will show up like so:

You get to create your own password with this option which some prefer. Make sure its longer than 8 characters and has a mixture of symbols and numbers so it has maximum security.

Once you create this account, a Bitshares local wallet will be created and stored and information will be provided in the case you need to restore your local wallet from backup .

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This concludes this tutorial on How to Create a Bitshares Account.

Hope this provides value so that you can take harness the advantages and benefits of Bitshares and use it to provide value to yourself and others.

If you every need any help with Bitshares, do not hesitate to ask in the comments or reach out to me on Discord (I am chiefmappster on Discord)

Thank you as always for your time and attention. It measn the world to me.

Image Sources:

• Blog header created by myself
• Screenshots by myself from wallet.bitshares.org

Namaste

@chiefmappster

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