**Hey I hope all of you are doing well, and I thank all of you for the amazing amount of support on my introdution post, in this post I want to give something back to the people joining this amazing community**😄 --- ![smollimage.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmNjvGr7Tvr9F8Bnd9zfY7kdANE8DQrN1TEz4HQZL2JZUW/smollimage.jpg) *I wanted to write this guide for all of the people that are brand new to Hive and were wondering how to create an account the easiest way and start posting to hive as fast as possible* I will be writing a couple of other tutorials explaining how the Hive eco system works and the easiest way I've found to acquire Hive as soon as possible, and I will be adding the link to this post as I come up with them. *So without further ado let's get right in to the tutorial.* --- * **Step 1: Open up hive.blog** ![hiveblogsite step 1.PNG](https://images.hive.blog/DQmW7ixKeMq2f1v34X3vUehNkD6rUtxuqowvtiGMfZEktyB/hiveblogsite%20step%201.PNG) * **Step 2: Click on the sign up button located on the top right hand corner of the page** ![Inkedhiveblogsite step 2 - zoom in to signup_LI.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmWqwTJF9suyWiR9wHedVS8a9xp1eMvyy7cmfoLjsejX78/Inkedhiveblogsite%20step%202%20-%20zoom%20in%20to%20signup_LI.jpg) * **Step 3: Choose option of choice, I chose hiveonboard because you can gain access to all of the Hive blockchain resources including the Hive wallet which for some reason costs e1.5 if you choose the hive wallet option** ![hiveproviders step 3 choose hiveonboard.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmbB6Zg2Ufm6vG6jeQq8aRbygFD34AXT5AcBvU3SMeo5PD/hiveproviders%20step%203%20choose%20hiveonboard.jpg) * **Step 4: Install the Hive keychain by going to this link [Here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hive-keychain/jcacnejopjdphbnjgfaaobbfafkihpep?hl=en) or clicking on the keychain icon on screen, we will come back to how it is used later.** ![hiveblog step 4 install keychain.PNG](https://images.hive.blog/DQmeEeco7MQp4zhbVcXdVYuzo34BdT9gHDw6LhikPid6efD/hiveblog%20step%204%20install%20keychain.PNG) * **Step 5: Enter your referrers account ID in the designated box, if you haven't yet made an account please use my referrer ID which is: Lildolphin** * **Step 6: Download a backup of your Hive passwords, as you will need them later you will have a bunch of different keys but we will only be using one of them with keychain.** *then click on the tick box that says*: >I (the soon to be owner of lildolphin) declare that I understand the requirement of safely securing these private keys. I understand that neither HiveOnboard nor any other entity on this planet is capable of restoring or changing these keys if lost. Meaning I really did save these keys in a safe location that I will be able to find later. **Click on create hive account** * **Step 7: Enter your phone number (remember to choose the area code). And then enter the code received on your phone to go onto the next step** --- **If you have followed all of the steps congratulations!**🎉🎉 ![celebrationbig.PNG](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRsBR6zC576fXnjfCSJHfNYXahpkvU49onBkWkZ6zuvZe/celebrationbig.PNG) *credits on the idea of using bitmojis to @carrieallen* --- *You will now see a welcome message and a screen showing you the different communities you can go and check out.* **Now we will set up keychain in order to make signing in easier Setting up Keychain.**
# Keychain setup --- *Keychain is a plugin used for storing your different hive accounts and broadcasting transactions to the blockchain. Let's add this hive account to the keychain to make logging in easier.* * **Step 1: We added the keychain earlier on in the tutorial. Now you need to click on the puzzle icon in the top right hand corner of the screen, and then click on hive keychain** ![keychain step 1 bro.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRBmFV2PgWXs8oCnoqseBjPesyTE1MRh4pTmRmG9BsHzw/keychain%20step%201%20bro.png) * **Step 2: Keychain will ask you to input a password.** *The password will need to be at least 8 characters long using at least one capital letter. This password will give you access to all the accounts stored within your keychain extension* ![keychain step 2.PNG](https://images.hive.blog/DQmUivQ433dGRq2ep5DfHkv7af8MpMKwpb9ncpdijG8CWYu/keychain%20step%202.PNG) * **Step 3: Choose the use keys/pwd option in the keychain plugin and enter your hive username and the password that you downloaded in step 6 part 1.** *This password will be noted in the backup text document you downloaded after “password:” the password itself is a long string of characters.* * **Step 4: Logout before you leave :P** --- # Thanks for reading *I hope this has helped you or one of your friends to create a hive account. I actually made an account from scratch to make this tutorial and it turned out really well*😎 *I can understand that it may be hard to start on hive, especially if you don't know anyone yet or how it works. But if you want any information please send me a message with any queries you may have and I will reply to the best of my ability* *I will be adding any beginner friendly ressource links to this post as I publish more tutorial content --- **current resources**: * **an amazing markdown guide by @carrieallen that will help you create posts like this: [click here](https://steemit.com/tutorial/@carrieallen/ultimate-markdown-tutorial)** **Any upvotes or reblogs are greatly appreciated 🥂** I'm tagging the admins because I would love to know what they think of this post 😄 they may also know where else I could post it on hive because I wasn't too sure where it would fit: @appreciator ,@rocky1, @upmewhale, @bluemist --- ![donebruh.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmevNQDibbNHatBPc1Etn57y89zLrSiyh6Ct6eNzDcXFSX/donebruh.jpg) * ***if you want to know more about who I am click [here](https://hive.blog/hive-148441/@lildolphin/eng-my-first-time-on-hive)*** Yet again send me a message if I've missed anything or you have any questions I hope this helped you out :D