RE: What's up Steemit? I am The Worldly Man! Traveler, chameleon and possibly a hipster!!!
Hey! Welcome to steemit. :) You have a lot of positive energy, and that's a good thing. Thanks for joining us here. @kaliju found you before me, and he's already shared most of the new user intro information I give promising new accounts. There's a new added bit about account security though that I'll give you to help even more:
Security
Do not use your owner key to log into Steemit.com to post. Use your private posting key instead. Keep your owner key offline as much as possible, and only use it when you must.
Per the advice given by Arcanage, you should only use your owner key to:
- Recover your account.
- Change the other keys.
- Give a present to your children a few minutes before dying.
A lot of scams have been happening on Steemit recently. If you click a link to a site that prompts you to log into it, be extra careful. Double and triple check the address to make sure it is really steemit.com. A recent scam was using "lsteemit" as the domain name, and people were entering their owner keys to log into it. That allowed the scammers to take those user's accounts, empty the money from them, and then ruin their reputation by using the newly hacked accounts to further the scam.
If you find or suspect a scam, please report it in the #steemitabuse channel on steemit.chat.