{"id":8778,"date":"2022-09-30T05:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=8778"},"modified":"2022-09-30T05:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T05:07:39","slug":"sign-up-security-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/sign-up-security-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign Up\/Security &amp; Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019ll need to sign up for an account to buy cryptocurrency from a centralised exchange. You\u2019ll have been through a similar sign up process countless times, though you\u2019ll find that social sign-up &#8211; Google, Facebook or Twitter &#8211; isn\u2019t generally available.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision of what email address to use for Sign Up is an important security consideration. Unfortunately, hackers target crypto exchanges and their users. This shouldn\u2019t put you off, but it is recommended that you either use a secure email address specifically for buying cryptocurrency &#8211; such as\u00a0Protonmail\u00a0&#8211; or you make sure the email account used has\u00a0<strong><em>two-factor authentication<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and a strong password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ll generally need to show you control the email address used by clicking a link within a&nbsp;<strong><em>Verification Email<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211; again, a standard online process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\u2019ve verified your email it is strongly recommended that you turn on Two-Factor Authentication for your Exchange Account using an app like Google Authenticator rather than an SMS service. ( We explore Security fully in article six).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll need to sign up for an account to buy cryptocurrency from a centralised exchange. You\u2019ll have been through a similar sign up process countless times, though you\u2019ll find that social sign-up &#8211; Google, Facebook or Twitter &#8211; isn\u2019t generally available.&nbsp; The decision of what email address to use for Sign Up is an important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}