ACHIEVEMENT 2: SECURITY ON STEEMIT BY@OKECHUKWU22//MENTOR BY@CRYPTOKANNONsteemCreated with Sketch.

in Newcomers' Community4 years ago

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Security is the freedom from, or resilience against potential harms.it gives a whole lot of concern for instance to steemit blog,in hearing of some of its members having issues of misplaced or stolen password.
As a result, this has given steemit blog in assuring and insisting that every member should maintain a system generated password, which are actually not easy to cram offhand by anyone as to disable a third-party from tempering of a member's account.
Also every member is advised to keep secret of his account password and possibly having them in hard copies to avoid misplacement,as this password maybe unretrievable, more especially the owner key and master key.
Let's take a brief discussion of the keys and their functions.

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THE PRIVATE OWNER KEY : This key is used to generate other password. It is highly important you desist from exposing this password in other not to give access to unlawful action in your account and possibly scam. This key is also used to recuperate the record inside thirty days.

So therefore,there is a need to implore a high level of security conciousness in keeping your password.

PRIVATE POSTING KEY: This password comes in to play in the following roles: posting contents, following or muting other participants,up-voting and down-voting.

PRIVATE ACTIVE PASSWORD: This is the major access key to your wallet. It is used in all transactions in the wallet ranging from converting steemdollar, planning market order, powering up and down, profile update and transfer.

PRIVATE MEMO PASSWORD: This is used for sending and viewing of encrypted messages.

PRIVATE MASTER PASSWORD: This is likened to the main key. It is the most important of all passwords. This password is used to retrieve any altered account. That is, the password automatically effects changes on another password.

It is important that every member safeguards this password against all odds.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Q1) HOW DO YOU INTEND TO KEEP YOUR MASTER PASSWORD?
A1) I have a duplicate of it in my hard disk drive, my flash drive and that of my email, including Google cloud where i know is much secured and i can access it without stress.
Q2) HOW DO YOU TRANSFER YOUR STEEM TOKEN TO ANOTHER STEEM USER ACCOUNT?
A2) I can do that with the following step:
From my homepage, click on wallet, from the pulldown menu click on steem

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From the drop down menu click on transfer

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Then from this page embed the recipient username and put in my private dynamic keys and afterwards send

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Q3) CAN YOU POWER UP YOUR STEEM?
Actually, i can. From my homepage,i will click on wallet, from the pulldown menu,i will on steem

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Then from the drop down menu,i will click on power up and It will quickly go to power up.

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 4 years ago (edited)

Congratulations @okechukwu22

You have passed Achievement 2 on understanding the purposed of the different keys offered to you on the steemit platform on creating your account. I personally happy you went ahead to show us how you can transfer seen token and power up your account from your wallet

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Please get ready for the next task on Achievement 3: Content Etiquette Link You are expected to know the Proof of Brain concept and able to produce and sharing quality/original content.


Thanks
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 4 years ago 

Thanks alot
I really appreciate