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====== Regenerating The Minting Key ====== | ====== Regenerating The Minting Key ====== | ||
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- | **Please note:** this guide is for level 1+ accounts who have minted previously and need to regenerate their minting key to add to Node Management. If you have not been sponsored or haven’t minted yet, go to the [[Becoming A Minter]] page. | + | |
+ | **Please note: You can only actually create your minting (Rewardshare) key ONCE. Regenerating the minting key is simply a process to re-access the same key. Therefore it is the same process as generating a key but only up to a point, | ||
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+ | Once you reach level 1 you can simply click the 'START MINTING' | ||
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+ | The Start Minting button can be found in the Overview Page in a new tab: | ||
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+ | You should then see that you're minting next to the block height in the UI Sidebar Menu and also in the Overview Page. | ||
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+ | ===== Manual Process of Regenerating and Assigning Your Own Reward Share Key ===== | ||
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+ | This is the manual process for recreating your own minting key for yourself - the process further down the page is the older version and is still possible using '+ CREATE REWARDSHARE' | ||
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+ | 1. Open a new tab and select Reward Share. | ||
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+ | 2. Click '+ OWN REWARDSHARE' | ||
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+ | 3. Click ' | ||
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+ | 4. Copy the Rewardshare/ | ||
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+ | 5. Click ' | ||
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+ | 6. Open a new tab, go to Node Management. | ||
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+ | 7. Click 'ADD MINTING ACCOUNT': | ||
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+ | 8. Paste the key you copied in step 4 into the field in the pop-up window: | ||
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+ | 9. Click ' | ||
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+ | 10. When this is confirmed on the chain you will see that you are minting by - | ||
+ | a) (Minting) next to Block Height in Sidebar Menu. | ||
+ | b) Minting status will show in Overview page (in a new tab). | ||
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+ | ===== Original Process of Regenerating The Minting Key ===== | ||
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+ | **Please note:** this is the original process which is still possible. This guide is for level 1+ accounts who have minted previously and need to regenerate their minting key to add to Node Management | ||
1. Open the UI. | 1. Open the UI. | ||
- | 2. Click on the section called | + | 2. Click on ‘REWARD SHARE’ on the left navigation column: |
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- | 6. A new window will pop up with a new key, right click on it and copy that key before completing this step. This is your minting key (as seen in first image below). Click ' | + | 6. A new window will pop up with a new key, right click on it and copy that key before completing this step. This is your minting key (as seen in first image below). Click ' |
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- | 9. Right-click to paste the key - you can also paste by ' | + | 9. Right-click to paste the key - you can also paste by ' |
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+ | Here is a single image guide for the steps above: | ||
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