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Linking your OpenBazaar GUID to your Blockstack ID

If you don't have the Blockstack CLI. Download and install it first. Instructions are here. The rest of this tutorial assumes that you've already registered a name using the Blockstack CLI.

Step 1: Advanced Mode

The first step is to activate "advanced mode" in the CLI. The command to do so is:

    $ blockstack set_advanced_mode on

Step 2: Add an OpenBazaar Account

The second step is to create an OpenBazaar account for your profile (the Onename app also enabled to link your OpenBazaar GUID). The command to do so is:

    $ blockstack put_account "<BLOCKSTACK ID>" "openbazaar" "<YOUR OB GUID>" "<URL TO YOUR STORE>"

The URL can be any valid URL; it won't be used by OpenBazaar. Here's an example, using the name testregistration001.id and the GUID 0123456789abcdef:

    $ blockstack put_account "testregistration001.id" "openbazaar" "0123456789abcdef" "https://bazaarbay.org/@testregistration001"

The update should be instantaneous. You can verify that your store is present with list_accounts:

    $ blockstack list_accounts "testregistration001.id"
    {
        "accounts": [
            {
                "contentUrl": "https://bazaarbay.org/@testregistration001.id", 
                "identifier": "0123456789abcdef", 
                "service": "openbazaar"
            }
        ]
    }

Troubleshooting

Common problems you might encounter.

Profile is in legacy format

If you registered your blockstack ID before spring 2016, there's a chance that your profile is still in a legacy format. It will get migrated to the new format automatically if you update your profile on the Onename app. However, you have to do this manually with the CLI.

To do so, the command is:

    $ blockstack migrate <YOUR BLOCKSTACK ID>

It will take a little over an hour to complete, but once finished, you'll be able to manage your accounts with the above commands (and do so with no delays).

Failed to broadcast update transaction

This can happen during a migrate for one of a few reasons:

You do not have enough balance to pay the transaction fee (which is calculated dynamically).
Your payment address has unconfirmed transactions.
You can't connect to a Bitcoin node.

To determine what's going on, you should try the command again by typing BLOCKSTACK_DEBUG=1 blockstack ... instead of blockstack....

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