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RE: Weekly Comment Catch-Up 4/13/18
what is the WIF? everytime when I go to steemit.com when I click login, it will ask me to put my user name and the next one is password or WIF, I just put my password key in. I wonder what is WIF. Thank you!
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Great question and unfortunately I don't have a solid answer for you. But it seems to have something to do with how the username, password, and key type you're using are put together in a string on the blockchain. This was the best answer that I could find: https://steemit.com/steemit/@davidk/how-does-steemit-password-gets-changed-to-wif