Quote from: zeeman on November 03, 2017, 09:22:46 PM

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The EOS testnet is here in 1 month. Heres what to expect

A surprising topic showed up yesterday on the EOS-subreddit. The devs are ahead of schedule and user knowbean spotted this on their GitHub and made a topic about it:
EOS Public Testnet coming on 4th December 4 weeks ahead of schedule!
Of course this got a lot of upvotes because everyone who follows a crypto-project is used to delays. But here we are. The devs are weeks ahead of schedule when it comes to starting a test-network and multi-core support.
What to expect
From a user perspective the testnet wont probably bring that much to the table right at the beginning. At least, that is what I expect. Its great to know that theres a blockchain running but unless you interact with it theres not that much to see. For the Block Producers (BPs) there is a lot to learn though. EOS is quite a new concept and a new block every second (or even every 500 ms!) is completely unknown in the world of smart contracts.

Full article:

https://medium.com/@eosforumorg/the-eos-testnet-is-here-in-1-month-heres-what-to-expect-2ef546cac6f1

Quote from: maryhansenn on November 03, 2017, 03:45:46 PM

First time token buyer here. Just getting in the game now. Whats the safest wallet for holding EOS? And should I even claim it now if I have no intention of selling until the distribution is over?

Just use a Ethereum-address where you own the private key. MyEtherWallet will do the job. Make sure to get a good backup of the private key. Most easy thing is to buy them on an exchange. That way there's no need to claim anything. You can just store EOS as the ERC-20 token that it is.

Hope that helps.

If you intend to hold until live net then you need to map your eos pub key to the eth wallet address. Otherwise your coins will not be in the snapshot on launch.

https://steemit.com/eos/@sandwich/how-to-update-the-eos-public-key-mapped-registered-to-your-ethereum-wallet-with-myetherwallet-mew