It's Achievement 2 by @commyjah: Basic security on steem

in hive-172186 •  3 years ago 

Hi lovely steemian! So happy to start my achievement 2task,hope you all are good.
HAVE YOU RETRIEVE ALL YOUR KEYS ON STEEMIT?
I have🤗, knowing that my account can't be recovered if I lost my password or keys so I saved my keys in a safe place because my account is of real value to me.
DO YOU KNOW EACH OF THOSE KEYS FUNCTION AND RESTRICTIONS?
We have the active key,memo key, owners key and posting key.
ACTIVE KEY:This is used for placing market order, voting for witnesses, power up /down transactions, updating profile details and avatar also transferring of funds .
MEMO KEY:When transferring fund memo key is used for encrypting and decrypting memos. There's always a need to use # or pound sign before encrypting a memo.
OWNERS KEY: Is the most powerful key and thus advisable to be stored offline and it's only used to restore account that has been tempered with
POSTING KEY:
It's allows the account to Mute or follow other accounts , vote,post ,resteem,edit,and comment.
HOW DO YOU PLAN TO KEEP YOUR MASTER PASSWORD?
Master password as it's been called is used to generate all others keys and the owners key.it's giving during signing up,so it should be saved on a device and also in a dairy or any safe place because it will be needed during account recovery. In essences it should be very very safe.
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR STEEM TOKEN TO ANOTHER STEEM USER ACCOUNT?
1.Go to your wallet.
2.Click the steem balance with arrow pointing down next to them.
3.Click transfer in the drop-down menu,type the username of the steem user account you want to transfer to.Make sure you verify the spelling very well.
4.Enter the amount of steem you wish to send .
Note: Although not mandatory you can enter a memo by using the memo key to encrypt the transaction.Always use the # or pound sign before encrypting a memo.
5.Click submit. And you will be asked for your password so any of the two can go Master password or active key.
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO POWER UP YOUR STEEM?
This is how it goes
1.Go to profile
2.Click on wallet
3.Click the arrow pointing down in steem.
4.Click power up.
5.Write the amount you want to power up to confirm.
With the answers giving am sure the basic security tips on steemit is clear to me. Thanks to this great supporters @cryptokannon, @alejos7ven.

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