All due respect to SteamPowerWhale for putting this together! Awesome share (it helped me out)!

There is one thing I thought should be clarified though.

I'm not a master Steemer yet but... I work with private and public keys very often for my line of work. 

Please don't use your private key for this. It's private, so it is best kept private. Public keys are used for encrypting information that is meant to go to the holder of the private key. The private key is used for decryption. 

Decryption is how you (or the bad guys) unlock information that was meant only for you to see. Give someone else your private key and you have given them the ability to decrypt things that were encrypted with the public key.

> *Please use the public key for public things. From your Steemit account's perspective anywhere that isn't steemit.com is public. So please don't share  your private keys with public sites like Poloniex.*

## Here is another article on this same topic (that tells you the correct key you're supposed to use):
https://steemit.com/steem/@cryptos/how-to-transfer-steem-from-poloniex-to-steemit-com

## Here is another article on public and private keys (complete with great animations that illustrate what each kind of key does):
https://steemit.com/security/@noisy/public-and-private-keys-how-they-are-used-by-steem-making-all-of-these-possible-you-can-find-answer-here

Also, I just moved some of my STEEM from Poloniex to Steemit.com using the public memo key. I did not need to reveal any private keys to Poloniex for this transaction to complete. The transfer went through in under a minute.