Achievement 2 @chrisdsteemsport: Basic Security on Steem
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It's a pleasure writing my achievement 2 task on newcomers' Community. My regards goes to @cryptokannon and the community at large
Question 1: Have you retrieve all your keys on steemit?
Answer: Yes. During the sign-up of my account, thereafter a master key was shown to me, to be able to use it and officially login my account , I.e my account's Username and password bracket space where the master key is expected to paste in were shown. Which I did, then took me to a page where I must download my account's all keys PDF file which i must save and avoid third party reach.
Manually, another way is to click on my wallet, when login, then I sign-in with my Active key to keep the wallet alive, then click on Keys and Permissions sign above to be able to see all my account keys
Question 2: Do you know each of this key functions and restrictions?
Answer: Yes.
- Master Key: This is the first key to get after your sign-up, This key helps you get other keys and can also be used to recover your account's keys. You must save it at your private option and avoid third party reach.
- Posting key: The key gives me the opportunity to post, comment, edit, vote, resteem, follow or mute other account, i.e everyday login purpose. It's limited posting exists to restrict the damage that a compromise account key cause.
- Active Key: The active key is for more rational task, such as when transferring fund to another account, Powering up or down, voting for witnesses, converting Steem dollar (SBD) to Steem, placing a market details and having a profile details update.
- Owner Key: This key can only be used when needed, very powerful because it can be use to change any key of an account, including owner key. You can store it offline and also use it to recover a compromised account.
- Memo Key: This is where encrypting and decrypting memo plays it's role mostly when transferring fund. You must use the Pound/# sign before it.
Question 3: How do you plan to keep your master password?
Answer: When gotten, I will save it to my Google storage or my secured email to be able keep it safe to avoid lost. Secondly, to keep it safe from third party reach.
Question 4: Do you Know how to transfer your steem token to another steem user account?
Answer: Yes. Click on your account's wallet and sign-in your user name and your account's Active Key as password to keep the wallet alive, showing the amounts on green color while you go to your STEEM's amount on green color, click on it and options must appear, click on the first option i.e Transfer, brackets automatically showing your Username with other empty brackets will show up, write down the username of the account you want to do the Steem transfer to, insert the amount on the next empty bracket and write a demo on the last bracket indicating the purpose of transfer or you may leave it empty. Then click on the OK button below to start the transfer. Thereafter finished, the steem token amount you transfered will be deducted from your previous steem amount balance.
Question 5: Do you know how to power up your STEEM?
Answer: Yes. Click on your account's wallet, press and also click on the page option and sign-in your Username and Active Key, click and login to keep the wallet alive, all amount on a green color will show up. Go to STEEM and click on it's amount on green color, options must appear, click on power up and empty bracket where you must write down the amount of steem you are to power up must appear, then click on the black bracket OK button shown below, after which your STEEM POWER (SP) MUST appear to increase to the exact amount you powered up while your STEEM token must be deducted from your STEEM token previous amount.
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