As a new user - the day will come when you want to withdraw some money, but where is the KEY or the Password that allows that? Here on the STEEM-NETWORK there is no recovery-function if you go ahead and lose your master-password.
That being said, now it is completely up to you how to secure your account that in the future will contain of Liquid Steem & SteemDollars and Voting-Shares in the form of SteemPower or Vests as some call it.
TODO LIST:
TODO LIST:
- Go to your Permission-Settings
https://steemit.com/@your-username/permissions - Next to each PUBLIC KEY there is a button that says:
Show Private KeyorLog in to Show - Save each Public & Private Key in a password-manager AND a hard copy on Paper.
- Keep it a secret!
Now that you have saved all your private keys, and stored them along with your master-password in a safe place, it is time to start using the Posting-Key as your default key to use when logging in to post or vote on the STEEM-Network. You only need your Active-Key when you sign money-transactions or vote for witnesses, so only use that one when you need it, and if you should lose your active key, you will need to change your master-password to a new master-password which will in turn change all your private-keys and make old ones non-functional.
There are many password-managers, many prefer to use the LastPass extension, others have different preferences, so share with us what your preferred password-manager is in the comment-field below and help new users make a good decision.
Blessings!
@fyrstikken
At the time of this post:
Registered accounts 141,780Total Reward Fund: 79,442 STEEM (Worth: $13,426 internally; $13,194 on Poloniex)Price: USD/STEEM: $0.1656; USD/SBD: $1.1898