Introduction
Hello guys,
It's has been quite a very long time now, I have not been very active on the platform due to some challenges beyond my control. Today with joy in my heart I am here to present my achievement number 2 task which talks about basic security on steem.
Steemit as a platform has many keys which are suppose to be kept very safe in other to secure your account very well. The essence of this achievement 2 task is so that we know the functions of these various keys and also discuss as to how the keys can be kept save. Below are the various keys present in the steemit platform
Your Tron Account Keys
There are 2 basic keys that are present in this section and they are listed below.
Your Stremit Private Keys
There are 4 basic keys that are present in this section and they are listed below.
Private posting key
Private memo key
Private active key
Private owner key
Your Steemit Public Keys
There are 4 basic keys that are present in this section and they are listed below.
Posting public
Memo public
Active public
Owner public
Note: Master Password is the seed key that is use to generate the document that contains the entire keys. It is recommended you don't share this key with anyone.
In your Tron account key, we have two different keys one of which is the public key which serves as the Tron address. The other is the Tron private key which is use to perform many activities in the Tron account. Some of the activities include transfer token, freeze and unfreeze TRX, vote for Tron SRs, explore Tron ecology and many more.
POSTING KEY
Here in this key it has many functionalities among which are it is use when publishing a post, Edit a post or comment, upvote and downvote, esteem content, fellow people, mute account etc.
ACTIVE KEY
The active keys are mostly used when talking about monetary issues. It is the key that enable you to perform some form of transaction in your wallet. The permission associated with this key include transfer token, power up or down, SBD conversion, vote witness etc.
OWNER KEY
Here this key is use to change other keys. The essence of this key is for you to recover your account or better still change the other keys. The permissions of this keys include resetting of owner, active and posting key, recover account, decline voting etc.
MEMO KEY
The memo key function is to encrypt or decrypt private messages which are sent using blockchain. The permission of the memo key include send an encrypted message, view encrypted messages.
PUBLIC KEYS
As I have listed earlier, you will notice that all the private keys have their equivalent public keys. Public keys are not required for login on the steemit.com
Question 1: Have you retrieve all your keys on steemit?
Yes, I have retrieved all the keys.
Question 2:Do you know each of these key functions and restrictions?
Yes I do know most of these keys function, I have actually explained few of them above.
Question 3:How do you plan to keep your master password?
Since the master password is use to generate seed that will enable us generate the other entire keys, it is recommended that this key is kept safe. In my part I have printed and kept it in my document. More also I have saved offline in my water hard drive.
Question 4:Do you know how to transfer your steem token to another steem user account?
Yes I do know how to transfer my steem to another steem user and below is the screenshot of the procedure.
Login to your wallet, click on the drop down icon close to your and click transfer
Enter the details required and click next.
Click on ok.
Enter your active key and signin.
Question 5:Do you know how to power up your STEEM?
Yes I know how to power up my steem and the procedure is seen on the screenshot below.
Go to your wallet, go to your steem token and click the drop down and then click on powerup.
Enter the amount you wish to power up and then proceed.
Conclusion
I want to sincerely appreciate all those who have always encouraged and stand by me through this trial time. I want to sincerely appreciate
@simonnwigwe,
@predomina and all the steemians who have help me to come back to this platform by supporting me with some money to get a new phone. May the good lord bless you all.
Thanks for reading...
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