Welcome to Steem Community @richardbearman! As a gentle reminder, please keep your master password safe. The best practise is to use your private posting key to login to Steemit when posting; and the private active key for wallet related transactions.
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Thanks gaman. My Steemit dream was almost over before it began when I thought I had lost my master password. It's now safe and never to be lost again!!
I like your ethos around helping newbies. Even though it's early days it kind of sounds like the top dogs might have been established already!?