How to STAY SAFE on Steemit Account
Today is the 1st Master Class in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, and for those who have signed up was super excited on what we are about to learn today. I was excited to finally start blogging like a professional blogger.
According to @maverick, we should all be using our "Posting Key" instead of using our "Master/Owner Key" to login to our steemit account. The reason we should not be using our Master/Owner key to login is to avoid our account to be hacked. Let’s face it, there are hackers out there that are able to hack if your account has a lot of SBD/STEEM.
I am going to show how you can avoid that from happening.
REMEMBER NOT TO COPY THE "STM7xxxxxxxxxxx" Series number - This is not your password.
Your keys starts with the "5xxxxxxxxxx" 52 characters series keys.
What is Posting Keys?
- The purpose of posting keys is to do posting, upvoting, & resteeming!
- You are advise to use your posting keys to login to your steemit account.
- Using your posting keys will not allow anyone to withdraw your SBD/STEEM.
- The posting key is used for posting and voting. It should be different from the active and owner keys.
What is Active Key?
- The purpose of active keys is to perform any money transaction for your account.
- Using Active keys allows you to make any transaction for transferring your SBD/STEEM to Power up & to do delegations.
- The active key is used to make transfers and place orders in the internal market.
What is Owner Key?
- This is your Master Key (Remember your password when you first signup for Steemit Account? Yes this is your Owner/Master Key)
- You should not use this Master Key for any reason other than you want to change your posting or active keys
- The owner key is the master key for the account and is required to change the other keys.
- The private key or password for the owner key should be kept offline as much as possible.
What we need to do to ensure we are logging in the correct ways.
Below are the steps you need to follow to avoid your account being access by other strangers.
Step 1
- Login using your owner/Master key.
- Go to your wallet and click on “PERMISSION” tab.
- Click on “show private key” as illustrated below for both posting and active key
You will see that your posting and active key will start with 5xxxxxxxx *52 character keys. Copy that into your "LASTPASS APPS" or your excel sheet where you can safe keep it. Make sure you do not share this with anybody else.
- You will need to logout from your steemit account and proceed to Step 2.
Step 2
- Login to your steemit account using your posting key that you have save earlier. Go to your wallet and click on "PERMISSION", and you will see your wallet as illustrated below:-
you will see that you will need to login to active key to do transfer transaction in the market
Step 3
- To do market transfer transaction, you are required to click "login to show" your active key as illustrated below, which will also ask you for your active password which you copy earlier.
- Login in your Active key that you saved earlier (the one that starts with 5xxxxxxxx series 52 character key)
I hope the steps will help you with your setup to ensure you are using your correct key for your Posting, Upvoting, Resteeming and to do Market Transaction .
Happy Steeming!!
I never knew that we can login with our posting key. Thank you for the tips. I will share it with anyone that I recruited.
Yes, we can. If you follow the steps one by one you should be to logging in using your posting keys, just make sure you copy all your posting and active key first before login using your posting keys. You can resteem especially for the benefits of your followers and yourself. 🍻
And you should. Especially on your phone. logging on your phone ensures that it does not have access to transacting steem/SBD so that if in the event of a hack, they cant steal your money.
That is so true. I am so glad you guys shared this information to us, now sharing it to the rest of the world. Imagine one day I become a whale and I am still logon using my Master Key? 😱. I am so glad i can share this information.
Excellent. This will help me a lot bro.
Thank you for sharing.
Yeah I notice about it and glad you highlight this matter. Will resteem for all benefits. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this! I need to delete saved password from Google chrome. My laptop and phone are using master password and saved password in chrome.
Although it is a little bit of troublesome to login and logoff to perform transaction but it creates secure that what matter!
Thanks again!
Glad that I can help @williamsyee. I rather go thru the troublesome of login in the using the correct keys rather than someone gaining access to my account and all my steem gone. 😅.
Thanks for the in depth tutorial @wilsonkoh, whenever I forgot the steps I will always refer to your post.
Yes @darrenting. I believe you will need to do only once.
@wilsonkoh its indeed is a very good post for newbies like us . we don't really see on such matters cause we are so much overwhelmed , its a very good post for securing it and thanks to you for reminding us all what worse can happen if you are careless : ).. keep sharing such good posts . a Big thanks !!!
Hi @blue-eye012 check out my post too https://steemit.com/steemit/@ejlo3310/3-things-i-learned-from-steemit-master-class we both attended the same class and our post covered different things. I hope my post will help you out too as a newbie^^