Questions tagged [accounts]
All questions related to an eos.io account. Account creation, permissions, security, and usage are all examples where you would use this tag.
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What is the value of a "good" account name?
There is talk of preventing account name squatting which implies that certain EOS account names may be more valuable than others. On a platform like Steem, it makes sense because account names are ...
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Who should be set to authorizing_account when creating an account?
Who should be set to authorizing_account when creating an account using 'cleos system newaccount' on the main net?
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Account name privacy?
Are accounts linked? My understanding is you need an account to create a new account.
So suppose you have main account ABC and then you create a new account SupportPoliticalCandidate:
Will it be ...
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How to transfer ownership of an account to another EOS key pair?
Suppose account aaa is associated with pubkey1. Is there a way to completely transfer ownership of account aaa to another public key pubkey2 ? The desired result is only pubkey2 can be used to ...
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How to delete eos account?
I have an existing account named aaa, and then i create a new account named bbb with aaa. It costs several eos tokens for ram/cpu/net stake.
Is there a way to delete account bbb, and reclaim ram/cpu/...
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is it possible to create an account using Cleos?
I've bought EOS on exchange recently and may not has an account on mainnet. So I really want to create an account prior before mainnet gets ready.
I understand that if we install full note and ...
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Is it possible to derive an eos account name from a public key?
Is it possible to derive an eosio account name with just a Public Key? I am thinking this might be impossible because a single public key can own many accounts, so I don't they have any correlation ...
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How to change active key for an account?
My active and owner keys are the same.
I want to change active key to be different from owner, for safety.
What command should I use?
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What is the difference between cleos create account and cleos system newaccount?
I noticed that cleos system newaccount requires these arguments to be set --stake-net --stake-cpu --buy-ram-kbytes. Does this mean that users would have to create accounts using the system contracts ...
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How do I create a non staked account on jungle testenet?
I get the following error while trying to create account using the cleos create wallet api.
./cleos.sh create account safarilion12 testacc43211 EOS8jd4VBQ8e5Yy7voS12LB4XL1vH112VNQPFQ7wu6PWF77FwRpLU ...
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cleos create account error with Chain API plugin is not enabled
I just started set up my eos dev environment. I started my node as
./nodeos --config-dir config --data-dir data --enable-stale-production --producer-name eosio --plugin eosio::chain_api_plugin
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EOS Token Economy with Contract, Wallet, Account
i'm trying to making dApp with EOS.
I have some questions.
About token.
Should i use "eosio.token" contract to make token economy? Or it is just for example? Then should i make new smart contract ...
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How to get an account on EOS mainnet?
I will start with the description, which I think is correct. I am not sure about all the steps, so please clarify/correct as much as possible :)
If the chain wasn't started yet, and I have some EOS ...
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Explain account parameters
I was going through the output of cleos get account myacc . I am finding it difficult to distinguish between the parameters of the output like memory, net bandwidth and cpu bandwidth. I know that i ...
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How are anonymous balances and records implemented
Daniel Larimer has said, "account balances can be made confidential but not source/sender." (Source: EOS Telegram group)
How do confidential account balances work? How, if at all, does that technique ...
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Is accounts namespace similar to domain namespace?
EOSIO Dawn 4.0 Release log says:
Due to the potential high-value of certain names, we believe that the EOSIO system should offer a dynamic pricing model for account names. Furthermore, the ability ...
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How can I get a list of all accounts, contracts, and tokens?
cleos doesn't have a subcommand for this.
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How can I protect an account using multisig?
I'd like to create a new account using cleos that requires multiple signatures to perform owner and active authorizations. I tried the following but it didn't quite work.
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How will account name pricing work on names shorter than 12 characters?
In the DAWN 4 release notes, it is mentioned that account names shorter than 12 characters (the max) will be disabled until a proper pricing mechanism is added. Will there be a bidding process for ...
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How does account recovery work?
What are the limitations to account recovery regarding private keys & associated coin holdings?
How does account recovery work for stolen/lost accounts?
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How will account name-squatting be prevented?
Due to the potential high-value of certain names, we believe that the EOSIO system should offer a dynamic pricing model for account names. Furthermore, the ability to namespace accounts such as *.com ...
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How to validate if an Account exists?
I know that we have require_auth to check for permission, but I'm looking for something like is_valid_account to check if the account exists and is active in the chain.
Do we have anything like that?...
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How to register an account on the testnet/mainnet?
What command do I have to run to request to register my_acct_name on the test net? Will it be the same for the main net?
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