#keychain

Keychain Added to Steemit.com!

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We are excited to announce that Steem Keychain is now integrated into steemit.com! That means that you can now sign into steemit.com without entering private keys into your browser. Keychain is a browser extension similar to Metamask for Ethereum that enables Steem users to store their keys and broadcast transactions to the blockchain.

Keychain gives Steem users more choice with respect to how they leverage the world's most used blockchain-powered social application: steemit.com. One of the benefits of open source software is that 3rd party developers can add features which enable users to customize their software experience to their unique needs, which is precisely why were happy to add support for this 3rd party extension to the site.

Keychain was released by the developer of SteemMonsters, @yabapmatt and is open source. You can view the github repo here.

[From the Repo](https://github.com/MattyIce/steem-keychain)

The Steem Keychain extension currently includes the following features:

Store an unlimited number of Steem account keys, encrypted with AES
Easily view balances, transaction history, voting mana, and resource credits for all of your accounts
Send STEEM and SBD transfers right from the extension
Securely interact with Steem-based websites that have integrated with Steem Keychain
Manage transaction confirmation preferences by account and by website
Manage automatic lock settings to lock when the browser is closed, the device is locked, or after the browser is idle for a specified period of time

Community Contributions

At Steemit, we want to empower community developers to help improve steemit.com and steemitwallet.com. We have an amazing developer community that we have failed to fully honor in the past. We know that many of them have become disillusioned with the process of contributing to Condenser (the software that powers steemit.com and steemitwallet.com) and we want to do whatever we can to reverse that.

That’s why we were glad to merge the PR submitted by @eonwarped which added Keychain to steemit.com. We would have liked to merge this change sooner, however, we determined that it would be safer for our users to implement this change after we had split off the wallet (steemitwallet.com) from steemit.com.

Other community contributions that were merged are:

Shorten permlinks from nested comments #3357, by @quochuy
Mark when a post/comment has been edited#3358, by @quochuy
fix non-existing post 404 #3359, by @blockchainstudio
Add ellipsis overflow for author description#3350, by @quochuy
Toggle dark/light theme on the body tag #3348, by @quochuy
Tag Steemit employees #3341, by @Smittyvb
esteem:// protocol support #3323, by @good-karma
Set editor preview max-width to 42.125rem #3322, by @quochuy

MVP: @quochuy

The majority of this batch of community pull requests were submitted by the user @quochuy making them the obvious candidate for this week’s Most Valuable Programmer ;). Steemit’s community is its “killer app” and we believe that by empowering community developers to add the features that users want to steemit.com will be critical for creating the unparalleled user experience necessary to mainstream Steem and blockchain generally. Without great contributions from community developers like @quochuy, this won’t be possible.

Special Thanks

Thanks again to @eonwarped who submitted the keychain PR (and a number of PRs that have now been merged) and the other great community developers who have submitted PRs.

The Steemit Team

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@luegenbaron(65)· 2590d
Finally!
@steevc(80)· 2635d
This is excellent news. Key management is one of the tricky parts of Steem, so anything to make it easier is welcome. Just need newbies to be told what to do. Is Keychain available on mobile at all?
@roguescientist84(61)· 2636d
@thesilverdoll we need to check this out
@ackza(74)· 2636d
Ok this is now offtopic but I have some inspiring words for steemit inc and steem

@aggroed you should be recognized more by steemit Inc but I already know @ned and you already tried working together. I wish ned would just make posts, THANKING you at least.... ... Ned has the WORLD on his shoulders and with just a LITTLE extra effort posting daily he could do SO much more than hes doing now in terms of rallying the people ..... but he just doesnt know that I guess or he doesnt see himself as that powerful? .... Maybe if we were @ned we would be under too much pressure and too afraid to make any big moves, so hes become a turtle, insulated in his shell....

But if @ned was to just come out of his shell and start spending just 1 hour a day in discord and posting on his blog, upvoting from @steem and @steemit once a week even could cause people to post on steem more in the hopes of getting that sweet sweet ned upvote.... he could inspire SO MUCH CONFIDENCE it would be like a King leading the troops himself into battle, on the ground with his soldiers.

Steem would go up so much, people would start buying again if ned was out here in the trenches, showing up on all the discords everyday even for a few mins, even to auto post and leave one comment.... i mean, if he just TALKED about these things like Keychain and Steem-engine , and USED his own platform to reach all the steemians he could rally us in such an effective way.... Ned could directly effect the price by asking steemians to post on Instagram and reddit to promote steem to other crypto users, it would inspire SO much confidence in his leadership to have him on the ground promoting steem with us on the subreddit.

And He wouldnt have to spend a dime, just a few hours of his time a day, just for a month, then he can take a break... but if he just gave us a roadmap and started working closer to the TOP steemians, it just helps to know when ned is supporting you...... it is a huge rush to get suppport from ned

I remember when @airclinic creator @nairadaddy in Nigeria got a resteem and attention from @ned it really changed their lives, and ned could be a hero to so many people in developing countries by just VISITING west Africa and south america ONCE. When ned gives stemians attention they get energized and work twice as hard! Ive seen it many times. I wish @ned knew his own power when it came to this subject

could you IMAGINE if ned just did a TELECONFERENCE and showed up in Venezuela and Nigeria/Ghana over Skype like for an hour, and really made an effort to be on screen for a big steem conference in Venezuela, West Africa? It would be so huge and inspiring for Steemians in those countries to see Ned the Steemit CEO on stage over skype, on screen, listening and making a speech to address steemians like the mayor of this internet city.... So many ways Ned himself could spend just a few hours a day, and inspire THOUSANDS of steemians to do many thousands of man hours of work for the steem blockchain.... Ned has no one else who can do these things.... we are humans and humans are simple when it comes to leaders and organizations, theres no way around Ned having to do a little more people person work.... BUT IT COULD BE SO FUN!

@ned could be having the time of his life touring the world meeting steemians and changing lives, striking up business deals with various companies in developing countries, meeting with school administrators to get steem accounts for all the students, stuff like that man, maybe thats all coming in time......

PS: I have everyone here in teh comments at $0.00 at least a 1 to 4 cent upvote :D
@contrabourdon(73)· 2636d
Works as intended. Thank you.
@gofindxr(62)· 2636d
great initiative, we will definitely build dapps for Keychain
@lizbethk(59)· 2636d
Cool.....
@dunsky(70)· 2636d
Steemitwallet can not remember language settings still!
@rudyardcatling(65)· 2636d
@steemitblog the world's most used blockchain-powered application

I LIKE THAT
that sounds really good, just shout it louder in more directions if you can lol, that's a real nice pitch (AND true ...)
ganbarrei

akshully, seeing the amount of wear and tear on my mousewheel from finding my reply to add something shows you seem to be getting

more reactions again ... it might the slight bump in price but i prefer to believe it's the increased engagement
@hungryharish(67)· 2636d
Thanks to @eonwarped and @quochuy for making steemit more secure ever. with the keychain feature we don't have to bother about logging in to other websites and forgetting password. I love to use this.
@lycaactivism(37)· 2636d
Is there a mobile equivalent of a keychain in the works? I access everything from a mobile device. Keeping the keys handy is a big pain.
@garrettwallace(48)· 2636d
A great addition to the Steemit Blockchain and greatly appreciated Steemit Team thanks
@crypticat(74)· 2636d
Keychain is great, just wish they had a version for mobile
@vishalhkothari(57)· 2636d
This is again a milestone to the steem platform... Congrats to the steem team and a big thanks to contributors...
@cryptopie(78)· 2636d
How to use it for the first time?
@stillwater(61)· 2636d
SaH-wwWEEEeeeeeeeeeeT!!!
@arcange(79)· 2636d
Congratulations @steemitblog! Your post was mentioned in the Steem Hit Parade in the following category:
- Comments - Ranked 3 with 92 comments
@fancybrothers(66)· 2636d
Good news, we appreciate the nice work done in these last couple of months. Hopefully it will eventually reflect on the steem price in the near future, even the slightest improvements will create confidence and confidence will attract investors, there's so much potential going on out here !
@igormuba(72)· 2636d
Hope keychain evolves more, like Metamask and Web3 for Ethereum. Will love to code apps for Steem blockchain.
@vlemon(78)· 2637d
Great news and easy implementation of Something that should have be done a while ago :D. Thanks !
@evilangel90(48)· 2637d
very nice, i m glad that they improve everytime. It gives more stability to @steem @steemit
@ajaa23(10)· 2637d
Verry good job follow me frends all steemian 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@okeaguugochukwu(49)· 2637d
good initiative
@stuffbyspencer(62)· 2637d
Awesome! Keychain is definitely an important tool for security, thanks for doing your part in supporting it! :^)

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@alokkumar121(82)· 2637d
Great implementation steemit team and this is going to make the user's overall experience even better and secure. Superb work done by the team.

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@seo-boss(67)· 2637d
great news!
@theguruasia(69)· 2637d
@steemitblog, @yabapmatt impact on STEEM is so real and huge! Thank you for this development and hope we could bring STEEM back to top of crypto lists in 2020 again as a community! Awaiting to use this new feature!

Cheers~
@ew-and-patterns(71)· 2637d
holy shit yes! Finally!
@ajorundon(63)· 2637d
How will it be with android?
@daan(69)· 2637d
Amazing news! Once keychain was ported to Firefox, I had no reason anymore not to use it. It's a great extension!
@stefano.massari(75)· 2637d
Good news
@pibara(68)· 2637d
A great first step towards retirement of TTP. Hope both Steemit Inc and the KeyChain crowd will consider taking the remaining steps proposed here.

The two steps remaining (next to more DApps adopting KeyChain) are in these two proposals:
- Proposal for Steem KeyChain to integrate a custom_json based operation for authentication
- Proposal for capability-based facet-contracts on the STEEM blockchain
I believe implementing these three paths could rid the STEEM eco system from TTPs, and keep us safe from the real threat of the TTP getting compromised. A threat that the recent Binance hack reminded us of to take seriously.
@honeysara(62)· 2637d
good idea
@joele(56)· 2637d
Great app, I hope you add a PIN code before any important action specially the sending.
@clove71(77)· 2637d
Awesome news!! Very nice to see this finally! 👍👍
@freebornangel(72)· 2637d
There's movement in the wire!
@knircky(73)· 2637d
Steemit, thank your for implementing this. Very sensible and I am impressed!
@smarthamster72(58)· 2637d
ok, good news!
@travelnepal(66)· 2637d
Finally its here. Great news for all.
@ssjsasha(74)· 2637d
Building blocks Keep on building!!
@rishi556(72)· 2637d
Now this is cool. No, this is better, this is AWESOME.
@socky(73)· 2637d
What about STEEM listing on Coinbase?
@sameernawab(67)· 2637d
wow awesome news
@funtraveller(76)· 2637d
Great news! I really like using keychain.
@cardboard(65)· 2637d
Just a heads up - can't login on steemit now (using the old method).

edit: fixed :)
@whataretheodds(54)· 2637d
Awesome, thanks so much for the hard work!
@travelersmemoire(58)· 2637d
Awesome work everyone! One more thing to keep all our accounts protected from phishing 😊

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@nathanmars(75)· 2637d
I've been using Keychain with @dlease and it's much much better than SteemConnect

Super happy to about Steemit also integrating Keychain

This will make my massive steem onboarding plan with PushBook Network lot easier

Thanks a million
@quinneaker(75)· 2637d
Wow will have to look into it. Seems this could be very very useful especially down the road when the Steem Ecosystem has so much going on in it! Nothing better than convenience and time saving when its safe effective and reliable!
@videosteemit(62)· 2637d
Thank you!!!! Well overdue in terms of implementation but very, very much needed

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@mylord1992(58)· 2637d
Good👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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@mahdiyari(73)· 2637d
Thanks for caring about community :)

Better late than never, but never late is better ;)

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@cryptocurator(65)· 2637d
Great to see this formally adopted by Steemit. Positive news. More please....

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@quochuy(78)· 2637d
That is great news. SteemKeychain is a great extension that I'm using regularly. I've also submitted a PR to allow to trigger SteemKeychain when clicking on SteemConnect transfer links. Thanks @yabapmatt and @stoodkev for bringing it to life.

Most Valuable Programmer of the week?! Wow, thank you @steemitblog 😎😋. It's great that you guys have opened the development of the app to the community.

Thank you @therealwolf, @jk6276 and @blockchainstudio for the shoutout and nice words.

^{If you like my work, support me and cast a vote for my witness}
@drakos(70)· 2637d
Great extension, I love it.
@gungho(59)· 2637d
Finally

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@whatsup(76)· 2637d
Excellent news! Great job.
@vikisecrets(80)· 2637d
wow, this is huge, great job 🚀 what about steemitwallet.com?
@dalz(81)· 2637d
Excelent! Now we need to make it work on mobile :)
@inertia(75)· 2637d
@mickvir(68)· 2637d
Great work guys !

Ease of access has been a big thing preventing mass adoption I feel .

I can’t wait to see how much effect keychain has on growing our community on Steemit.

Have an awesome day!

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@tinyhousecryptos(50)· 2637d
I was in the VA Hospital over the Memorial weekend and just got home today to be back home with my family. I had talked to at least two other veterans about Steemit.com and got them interested in joining the family here; and gave them information on how to join. I'm just now hearing about this great news. I have the Keychain already and getting ready to check it out now.

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@hardaeborla(69)· 2637d
This is actually a great development on the Steemit platform. I actually appreciate the effort of Steemit Inc and other steemit officials with the support of other great Steemians for their great impact on the development of the Steemit platform. I hope we experience more great development in the coming years.

Thanks for sharing this great post.
@knowhow92(79)· 2637d
More good stuff keep happening. Keep it up.
@steemcollator(57)· 2637d
Well done steemit inc but we still need more developments
@midlet(74)· 2637d
It's great to see some progress being made. I think it would be great to see a roadmap for future Condenser features and what's the best way to make feature requests?

Something like a Trello board for the upcoming changes would be great, it would also be a great asset to help determine community support behind features since you can vote there as well. Now that I think about it, a Steem based Trello clone would be amazing. Anyway, main question

What's the best way for users to make feature requests?
@arnel(67)· 2637d
Great job! Another contribution to a thriving Steemit community.
@jk6276(72)· 2637d
Great to see this addition of keychain to steemit, will make life easier. @quochuy is one of the most underrated witnesses. Everyone go vote for @quochuy.

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@chesatochi(73)· 2637d
This is something outstanding and make this blockchain even stonger. ;)

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@drutter(73)· 2637d
This sounds potentially useful for me. Questions...
1. In what ways is Keychain safer than simply saving private keys in our browser the normal way?
2. Who will potentially have access to our data saved within Keychain?
@cladust(20)· 2637d
can't say much about this one.
@therealwolf(77)· 2637d
Kudos to @eonwarped and @quochuy!

We have an amazing developer community that we have failed to fully honor in the past. We know that many of them have become disillusioned with the process of contributing to Condenser (the software that powers steemit.com and steemitwallet.com) and we want to do whatever we can to reverse that.

I really appreciate the honesty.👍 Once we've got SPS up and running on Steem, developers have even more incentives to improve condenser.
@sepracore(64)· 2637d
Awesome! Glad you are tapping into the developer community to improve Steemit.com. Better late then never. All these little changes really add up for a better user experience.
@immanuel94(73)· 2637d
Amazing news, very nice to have. :3
@alucian(73)· 2637d
Very nice to see, thank you. I like and use the Keychain app since his begin.
@eonwarped(70)· 2637d
Woohoo! Very excited to see it live. Thanks everyone that contributed to Steemit, it's really great to see.
@uyobong(78)· 2637d
Congratulations to the Steemit Inc team for the the developments on Steemit. Kudos!
@blockchainstudio(72)· 2637d
This is really awesome. Special thanks to @eonwarped for keychain integration and @quochuy for so many great works done! Also thanks for mentioning me as well :)

[From the Repo](https://github.com/MattyIce/steem-keychain)

Community Contributions

MVP: @quochuy

Special Thanks

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I LIKE THAT