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====== Account Setup & Recovery ====== | ====== Account Setup & Recovery ====== | ||
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Below is a walkthrough of setting up your Qortal account in the UI. Please keep in mind, Qortal is about true decentralization which means a little effort on your part will be needed, but it is painless with a little patience! | Below is a walkthrough of setting up your Qortal account in the UI. Please keep in mind, Qortal is about true decentralization which means a little effort on your part will be needed, but it is painless with a little patience! | ||
- | ===== Making A New Account ===== | + | ====NOTICE - Qortal UI method below is now DEPRECATED, and Qortal Hub, Qortal Go, and Qortal Extension have taken the place of Qortal-UI as the primary interfaces for Qortal (' |
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+ | Qortal Hub, Go, and Ext, all have built-in tutorial videos explaining how to create an account, and many other features of the interfaces. However, more information will be provided here as well in the near future. We appreciate your patience as the updates of all Qortal documentation takes place. Qortal has developed extremely quickly and documentation has fallen behind. Please reach out to the Qortal Community via one of the available methods for the most updated information until the updates here are finalized. Thank you! | ||
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+ | ===== Making A New Account | ||
First, you'll need to setup a node: 1) use an existing computer (whether Linux, Windows, or Mac operating systems), 2) build a Raspberry Pi 4, or 3) buy a QORTector pre-configured from https:// | First, you'll need to setup a node: 1) use an existing computer (whether Linux, Windows, or Mac operating systems), 2) build a Raspberry Pi 4, or 3) buy a QORTector pre-configured from https:// | ||
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- | ===== Activate Your Account ===== | ||
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- | Now that you have made your account and secured backups for it, you will want to send a transaction on-chain to activate your account. Until you do so, the chain does not have your account on the chain. Simply send a message in Q-Chat General Chat! You could also register a name, join a group in the UI, or send coin to your account from another account. If you ask the community, someone will happily send you 0.001 QORT to at least activate your account. | ||
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Go to the [[How To Register A Name]] page! | Go to the [[How To Register A Name]] page! | ||
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