I want to share some information about Antshares (= ANS) that I gathered the last few days and which were very useful to me. I hope it will help some of you too, who have the same questions I had.
This post is not about recommending to invest in Antshares. Maybe I will write about the investing aspect some time in the future.
I want to make clear that I am in now way connected to the Antshares Development Team or something similiar. I am just an ordinary guy that is interested in cryptocurrencies.
Now to the problem I had. As most people know, it is not recommended to store your cryptocurrency coins on exchanges like poloniex, bittrex and so on. Normally theres is an easy way available to create a public key (= public address) an the corresponding private key (WIF, ...), so that the coins bought at an exchange can be transferred to such an address and stored there savely (as long as you don't lose your private key or someone else gets to know your private key).
Well, my problem was, that I wasn't able to find that for Antshares. But after some time I found a way and I want to share that with you. These are the steps:
Download the Antshare Core from their homepage here https://www.antshares.org/en-us/Download/Index (it is only available for Windows!)
Install it and when you run it for the first time you come to this window:
Click on "Wallet" and then "New Wallet Database". Choose a place for it to be saved on your harddisk and type in a passwort that you remember.
After that is done you will see an address that was created in the antshares blockchain.
Right click on that created address and then on "view private key". Write that information down and don't loose it and don't give it to anyone else.
Then you have to wait that the Antshares Core syncs with the blockchain. You can see that on the bottom left of the following snapshot:
At that time there were 902304 blocks on the blockchain and all synchronized in my Antshares Core Programm. It took about 3 hours until it was all synched.To test the address you can now send a small amount of Antshares you own to the address that was created before (where you right clicked to get to the private key).
Because only when there was an transaction with that address does this address show up on the antshares blockchain explorer.
Blockchain Explorers for the antshares blockchain is here https://www.antchain.xyz/ or here http://antcha.in/ . When you made an transaction with the address you created you can type that address in one of those two antshares blockchain explorers und you will find the amount of ANS you sent to that address there.
So this is the way I wanted to explain on how you can transfer ANS from exchanges to your on private wallet. I hope this was helpful to you. Let me know if this worked for you or if you have other questions and I will try to answer them.
Best whishes!
P.S. When the ANS are stored in the way I described above, you get also the benefit, that you get AntCoins (not AntShares!) credited. You can see the amount in the Tab "Asset" and then "Balance". And by the way: your antshares are save in the antshares blockchain even if you delete the antshares core from your computer. All you need is the public address and your private key! Further information about AntShares and AntCoins can be found here in the white paper: https://github.com/AntShares/AntShares/wiki/Whitepaper-1.1