Maxim Burkov - The Book about Cryptocurrency № 1

In the crypto money world, decisions should be taken quickly; it happens that the situation with the rates of coins changes in a matter of hours. One careless tweet can both help “fly up” the coin or collapse it.

Our advice! Follow the official Twitter accounts of each cryptocurrency. Do not wait until this information is processed by the media, translated and replicated.

Where can I find information regarding official sites, Twitter accounts and other important news?

First of all, we suggest to bookmark this site in your browser. https://coinmarketcap.com/

This is a portal which all information about cryptocurrencies existing in the world is accumulated on.

Here, in dynamics, you can see at what rate the coins are offered, how many coins there actually are on the market now, which exchanges they are traded on.

The site is convenient because there are different language versions, it has an understandable interface, and you can get comprehensive information about each coin: cost, dynamics, links to official sites, Twitter, etc.

Official websites of the most popular coins:

Bitcoin – https://bitcoin.org/

Ethereum – https://www.ethereum.org Ripple – https://ripple.com/xrp

EOS – https://eos.io

Cryptocurrency topic forum – https://bitcointalk.org/.

Pro Blockchain Media project:

YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/c/PROBLOCKCHAIN

Website – https://pro-blockchain.com/

Telegram – https://t.me/Pro_Blockchain

VK – https://vk.com/problockchain

Twitter – https://twitter.com/PRO_BLOCKCHAIN

Important! To avoid phishing attacks, pay attention to the spelling of the site name and the availability of its SSL certificate.

If you are young enough, and you got used to communication via social networks and instant messengers and consider email as something archaic and old-school, then you will still need it in the process of exploiting blockchain.

1. It is better to create email on Google.

Mail with the “gmail.com” domain is the most secure nowdays. You’d better register a new email account, separated from other tasks, only for working with the crypto.

2. Creating a secure password

It is better to use a password generator for creating the password.

For instance, service: http://www.onlinepasswordgenerator.ru/.

Here you can set the password parameters: number of characters, lowercase, uppercase, etc.

By pressing the “Generate” button, you will receive a choice of 10 secure passwords that are difficult to break.

More password generator options:

http://passgen.ru/

https://randstuff.ru/password/

https://www.passwordist.com/

Choose any of these and always remember about security.

The generated password should be stored in a safe place. From time to time, change the password of your inbox.

We suggest using different passwords for different services.

3. Installing Google Authenticator

This is a special application that you install on your phone – “Android” or iOS, it is tied directly to your account, it can be tied to exchange, email or other services related to cryptocurrency and so on.

It must be definitely used! This will be additional protection of your email and further access to the passwords that you have.

It is very easy to use it.

Go to settings of your gmail.com, in the section “Accounts and Import” – “Change settings” – “Password recovery options” there will be the “Two-step authentication” tab. Select Google tab. Then you will have a QR code, you scan it using your phone and the application you previously downloaded.

The app generates a new code every 30 seconds. Therefore, when entering the email, you will need to enter your login, password and this code. This is like two-factor authentication via SMS passwords, only in this case you get a second password via Google application.

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