Hello everyone!

Just a quick update aimed at a few specific people: the old school Muse and BitShares communities. I will make another post soon in order to introduce Steemians to PeerTracks and the Muse Blockchain. Till then, you can check out the site: http://museblockchain.com/ and sign up to the newsletter.

If you weren’t aware, there is a new Muse blockchain coming out this summer. A test network has just been launched and the source code should be released over the weekend. We invite all Muse Witnesses and anyone tech-savvy to join our Slack (tester channel) and help us prep this new chain for launch.

The new chain has very little to do with the current/old one other than it being built using the Graphene toolkit. That being said, anyone that has MUSE/NOTE still get a stake in the new network. This is what this post is all about!

Claiming your MUSE, previously known as NOTEs

Already have it? Good! Keep it.  

If you’ve already claimed your stake (back in the day!) then you are good. Just keep your MUSE in your possession until the snapshot date. Also, you must ensure you have your wallet file and/or private keys safely stored until the new chain launches. You will need to import these keys/wallet file into the new Muse in order to claim your stake.

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR MUSE ON AN EXCHANGE (OpenLedger and BitShares count as exchanges!)

ANY MUSE LEFT ON EXCHANGES DURING THE SNAPSHOT DATE BELONG TO THAT EXCHANGE (as far as the Blockchain is concerned)

If your MUSE is on OpenLedger as open.muse, you need to withdraw it and send it to your wallet.  

I had issues claiming my full stake  

The downloadable client wouldn’t allow people to claim their MUSE if they had more than a certain amount of keys to import. The client has since been updated and made into a web wallet to ensure everyone can:

• Create an account
• Claim their FULL stake
• Transfer their MUSE from exchanges to their own wallet

Here it is: http://wallet.muse.help

And here it is for the Chinese community:  http://cn.wallet.muse.help

The claiming process

1. One you have followed the link above and see the web wallet in your browser click the little gear icon in the upper right corner.

 

2. Now that go to the bottom of the page and click "WALLET MANAGEMENT CONSOLE" as shown below.

3. Click "IMPORT KEYS"

4. Now choose your method

5. Finally once all is done you can click "LOOKUP BALANCES" and your MUSE should appear.

Bonus resource:  http://docs.bitshares.eu//muse/migration/index.html

Action soon required  

The Snapshot date has not been announced yet. This post is just to let people know that we are alive and getting ready to launch the new network. To be safe, you might want to transfer all of your MUSE to the updated web wallet as soon as you finish reading this post.  

To those that participated in the pre-sale of NOTEs and have never claimed anything, you can wait and import your Bitcoin private keys directly into the upcoming Muse (the new Blockchain’s) interface. Once again, just make sure you don’t have any MUSE sitting on exchanges.

Where we're at today

The new blockchain is feature complete. We are releasing the front end in 3 phases.

Phase 1: Crypto-centric infrastructure

This is basically just the wallet. It allows you to claim your stake, transfer around funds, vote for Witnesses, change your password, basically everything required to have a running, distributed blockchain. The GUI is only a few days away from completion.

Phase 2: Database for Music metadata

This is the first part marketed to the outside world (not merely the cryptohead early adopters micro-niche). This web app allows the musicians to upload their copyright and licensing information into Muse – putting them in control of their data, hence in control of the flow of their royalty payments.

Phase 3: PeerTracks music streaming platform

This is the front end aimed at the music consumer. PeerTracks reads the information on the Muse blockchain and knows who to pay and how to pay them.  This phase requires Muse have an "inventory" of uploaded data.

More detailed info coming soon! For now don't forget the goal of this post: to let those that own MUSE know they must keep it in the new web wallet. Snapshot date announcement coming soon!