Achievement 2- BASIC STEEMIT SECURITY

in Newcomers' Community3 years ago (edited)

Hello steemian, happy Valentine day, it a wonderful thing to do my achievement 2 after my achievement one verification here, I am being lecture of steemit basic security.

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Question 1

Have you got all your keys in steem

All my steemit keys have been retrieve and carefully save as an offline massage in my yahoo mail, I did this to be very sure that it is well secured and know place to me alone.

Question 2:

Do you know each of these major functions and limitations

  • Private posting key
    The posting key play so many role it os a key that I use when I want to access both by steemit account and steemit wallet account, I also use this key when I want to comment on a post, re steem a post too. Upvoting and downvoting is also down with the help of this key.
  • Private Active key
    The private active key is the key mostly use in finalizing transaction such as transfer of steem, powering up and powering down.

  • The owner key
    The owners key is the type of key that is being used to change every key in the platform, in other to make it safe or when you feel that your account is tempered you may decide to change it and this is done with the owners key.

  • The memo key
    The memo key is a key that is being used in stating reasons or purpose of why you are performing transactions im the platform

Question 3

How do you plan to store your master key password?

I keep my master key safe as an offline massage in my yahoo mail, I did this to be very sure that it is well secured and know place to me alone and this made my account safe.

Question 4

Do you know how to transfer your STEEM to another steemit user account?

For me to transfer my steem from my account to another account I will do the following.

I will first of all, enter my steemitwallet to do this using my private posting key.
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After my steemit wallet open I am going to click on the arrow the that pointing down and close to the steem amount
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Here, I am going to click on transfer to proceed and a new page in which am to fill the beneficiary, steem amount and memo will display

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The last thing to do is to put your master key or private key to finalize it and the steem is going to be transferred

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Question 5

how to Power down STEEM

To be able to power up am still going to use my steemit wallet account so I will have to first login
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Then I click on the drop down arrow

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Here, I am going to click power and I am going to put the steem quantity that am powering up

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The last thing to do is to put your master key or private key to finalize it and the steem is going to be powered up

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I must say it is quite an interesting tasks because it has really enlightened me to know what the steps in performing transaction and the use and meaning of different keys.

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 3 years ago 

Hi, @waart,

Your post has been supported by @ashkhan from the Steem Greeter Team.