ACHIEVEMENT 2 BY @obysuccess | BASIC SECURITY ON STEEMIT | MENTORSHIP BY @cryptokannon

Hello everyone, hope you are doing great. This is my achievement 2 on basic security.

To a lay man's understanding, security has to do with protecting, guarding something from harm or danger. So, the basic security on steemit is how one can safeguard his steemit keys to avoid his account from being lost.

HAVE YOU RETRIEVED ALL YOUR KEYS ON STEEMIT?
It is needful to note that for you to access your account in steemit, you must use your keys. Without your steemit keys, you cannot do anything in your steemit account.

After my steemit account was verified, I was given my master password, which is being used to retrieve all the other keys which include: Posting key, Active key, Owner key and memo key. So, I can certainly say that I have retrieved all my keys.

DO YOU KNOW EACH OF THESE KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESTRICTIONS?
In steemit, the fact remains that each key has it's own function. So, I am going to highlight the various functional keys.

1. Posting Key
   This is often used in one's daily interactions on the Steemit platform. If you want to login into your steem account, make a post, comment, edit a post, upvote or downvote, or resteem a post, the posting key helps you to achieve all these. You can also use the posting key to follow people, and even mute accounts.

2. Active Key
   The Active Key is necessary, when you want to perform some transactions on the platform,
   Active key is also used to transfer tokens like steem and SBD, power steem up and down, perform SBD conversion, place an order or exchange, vote for witnesses and perform certain profile changes. You can also use to create a new user.

3. Master Key: This is very important. Because it is the first key given to you after your registration which is used to generate all other keys. It is mainly used when you are going through the account recovery.

4. Owner Key
   The owner key is a verfy powerful key. It is mainly used to reset other keys like Owner, Active and Posting keys. You can also use it to recover one's account and decline voting rights.

5. Memo Key: This key is used to send an encrypted messages and also used to view an encrypted messages.

HOW DO YOU PLAN TO KEEP YOUR MASTER PASSWORD?
The master password is very important as it is used to generate other keys in one's account. And if it is lost or compromised, you can lose all your tokens. I have been able to keep my own somewhere safe, I have a backup of it on a printed paper, offline copy in a digital offline storage device, like a flash drive.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO TRANSFER YOUR STEEM TOKEN TO ANOTHER STEEM USER ACCOUNT?
To transfer my steem token to another user takes a simple process. To do that first, I logged in into my steemit account with my posting key. Then I clicked on my image at the top right and select wallet.

It took me to my wallet. Then I signed into my wallet with my username and active key. Upon logging in, I clicked on the drop down arrow close to steem and select transfer.

Then I typed in the username of the account user I want to transfer to, and the amount and click next.

Finally, I clicked OK to confirm the transfer.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO POWER UP YOUR STEEM?
Power up is a process where liquid Steem is converted into steem power. This is done in the wallet. After signing into my wallet with my username and active key, I click on the drop down arrow close to steem, and then select Power up.

Then I typed in the amount of steem I want to power up and click power up.

I remain grateful to @cryptokannon.
I am also grateful to @michaelu40 and @ngoenyi for their assistance.

Below is my introduction post
https://steemit.com/hive-172186/@obysuccess/5mfjs5-my-introduction-post-to-steemit-or-mentorship-by-cryptokannon