Hello beautiful people of Hive, I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend. Here in Nigeria it’s a Saturday and a weekend day. I wish you all the best of the day.
I will like to share this to everyone as regards inviting your friends to Hive as well as presenting them a guide through Hive registration and posting.
Here are the procedures to sign up for Hive
Log in to https://hive.blog from your browser.
Click on the three lines on the right and select sign up.
There are different methods to sign up as a hive users as presented below.
You can use Hiveonboard to register.
This will open up an interface where you will be prompted to input a username, and then series of keys such as posting, memo, active and owner keys will be generated for you.
It is advisable to download your keys and store them offline.
Sometime ago I read of how online companies align with google mail in order to reveal people password because we all find the mail safe to store our passwords. But I wouldn’t advice any to do that, the best place to save your password is offline where it can’t be accessed by the third party without your permission.
After backing up your keys, you will be asked for a verification, if you are using Ecency platform to register then your email will be verified, if you choose to register with hive.blog then you will need a valid phone number to get verified on hive.
With that been done,
You can log into your account with the your username and posting key.
Please it is advisable to note that all keys given to you at the point of registration belongs to you and serves a purpose; you ought to keep them in a safe place.
Proceed to log in your account with your user name and posting key. I will talk about the function of other keys in the conclusion part of this guide.
Your blog will be opened for you which you first ought to fill in your data by clicking on profile select settings, enter you data such as your profile and cover image, a brief statement about who you are and also your location.
The next important is Hive power delegation, if you don’t have Hive power, your influence on the block chain will be low. This will result you into building your account from the scratch. This mean you might be restricted to making much post as a newbie. Having done all this (registration, verification, uploading your document) you are good to start blogging on Hive.
Function of hive keys
Owner key
The owner key is used to change your password /keys. If you feel a third party already have access to it. Also helps to recover account.
Active key
Active key is meant for funds. it aids transferring your funds, powering up or voting for a proposal.
Posting key
This key is used for posting, as the name implies, activities such as comments, vote and post are been carried out when the user is logged in with posting key.
Memo key
Since I have been on Hive I have never used the memo keys. I have little or no knowledge of it.
Thanks for reading this content as regards newbie registration on Hive. I wish you a prosperous new week.