Announced a couple of months ago, the initiative of splitting Steemit.com into two different online properties is now live. From now on, you can use Steemit.com only for posting (including commenting and voting) but for any token related activities (sending, receiving, powering up or down) you will use a different site, called Steemitwallet.com.
I didn't include links intentionally in this text, because the preferred (and more secure) way to access Steemitwallet.com is by using Steemit.com UI. When you click on the "Wallet" link on the side menu or in the profile menu, you will be taken to a new website, which looks very familiar, but which only has one feature: token management.
Why Splitting?
The main reason behind this is, short term, security. But long term, there is another strategical benefit, which I will try to outline below.
Short Term Benefit: Security
If you want to use Steemit.com, you should log in with your posting key, because that gives you a smaller set of permissions. You can't make transactions with your posting keys, only with your active key.
Interacting on Steemit with a smaller set of permissions gives you what it's called, in terms of security, a smaller attack vector. In other words, there will be less chances for you to inadvertently expose higher permission keys and in the event that your Steemit.com key is compromised, you will only lose the ability of posting / commenting / upvoting, not your funds.
Long Term Benefit Number: Flexibility
Splitting a monolithic app into functionally-based pieces can pave the way towards a more flexible approach. Steem is a blockchain and you can build all sort of dapps on top of it, not only social media.
Steemit.com, the website, is the most popular application of it, but, as games like Steem Monsters showed us, there's a lot more to do in this space. Having one place for your wallet, and as many places as dapps are for any other stuff, looks like a more intuitive and flexible way to go forwards.
One more thing, if you try to log in with your password (or active key) on Steemit.com, there will be some sort of popup informing you about that. Along with that popup, you will be able to download a PDF file with all your keys and permissions.
Please, take very good care about that file.
Steem on!
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