MetaMask Tutorial for Beginners 2022 — Set Up a MetaMask Wallet Step By Step — How To Use MetaMask

How To Set Up A MetaMask Wallet

Hello, and welcome to the lesson.

In this lesson we will be installing MetaMask which is a virtual wallet that lets you conduct commerce with NFT marketplaces.

MetaMask is a crypto currency wallet, and it is available as a browser extension or a mobile app.

In this lesson I will show you how to install MetaMask on your Chrome browser, but you can install MetaMask on other browsers as well.

MetaMask is a virtual wallet, but it works similar to a physical wallet. Meaning you can store your money there, and you can use this money in different marketplaces on the Internet.

Which means, for example, that you can sell an NFT on a certain marketplace and then use the money you earned from selling that NFT to buy an NFT on another marketplace — the MetaMask wallet is not a part of the website but a part of your browser, so it will follow you and be usable wherever you go.

The other great thing about MetaMask is that it creates the password and keys on your own computer, so you don’t have to be afraid that someone will hack the marketplace that you are trading on and steal your details and use them to make transactions.

Ok, so let’s begin

So, the first thing we will need to do in order to set up a MetaMask wallet is to go to metamask.io

And it is important that you will do exactly as I do, and directly type the web address metamask.io in your browser’s address line, and press enter.

The problem with searching for metamask.io on Google is that we might click on a fraudulent website by mistake, and those sort of sites might try to steal our details.

Ok, let’s continue.

So, once you are on the metamask.io website just click on the blue download button at the upper right hand corner of the website.

Then you will see three tabs (Chrome, iOS, and Android) and because we now want to install MetaMask on our Chrome browser, we will keep the default Chrome option selected, and just scroll down, and click the blue Install MetaMask for Chrome blue button.

You can see below the button the other browsers that you can install MetaMask on if you are not using Google Chrome.

So I will click the Install MetaMask for Chrome blue button, and I will be directed to the Chrome web store.

Once there, let’s just click the blue Add to Chrome blue button, and then we will just need to click the Add extension white button to install the MetaMask extension onto our browser.

Ok, so once the extension has been installed on our browser (we can see that by the Welcome to MetaMask notification on our screen) we can click the blue Get Started button that we see on the page to continue.

You will now be asked if you want to create a new MetaMask wallet or if want to use a MetaMask wallet that you have created in the past, so if you have already install MetaMaskin the past, then you can click the import wallet blue button to import your old MetaMask wallet.

This is an option that you will want to use if you have deleted your browser, deleted the content on your computer or if you switched to another computer and you now want to install the MetaMask extension again.

Yet, in this example, we don’t have a MetaMask wallet, so I will click the Create A Wallet blue button under the Yes, let’s get set up! Caption to set a brand new wallet.

On this page Metamask asks if you want to share usage data information with them for the purpose of improving MetaMask, and you can do that if you would like by clicking the I Agree blue button at the bottom of the page, but I prefer not to do that so I will just click No Thanks gray button next to the blue button.

Ok, so now MetaMask asks to create a password for our MetaMask wallet, so I will type my password in the blank line under the New Password caption, and then type my password again in the second blank line under the Confirm password caption.

You will not want to share this password with anyone, so no one will have access to your wallet.

Once you are done just click the Terms of Use blue button to read the terms of use, and if you agree to them just tick the tiny box next to the caption I have read and agree to the Terms of Use, and then click the blue Create button below the tiny box to continue.

Now, we will be presented with the Secret Backup Phrase page, and on this page MetaMask will give us a phrase that we need to write down and store in a safe place.

If you remember, on the page where MetaMask asked us if we want to import an old wallet or create a new one, we have picked the option to create a new account, but if we had wanted to import an old account then we could have chosen the other option on the page, and use our phrase to restore our old account.

So I will click the Click here to reveal secret words message, and just write down the phrase that I get in a secure place, and MetaMask actually give you tips on how to securely store your phrase on the right side of the page.

The reason that I now show you my phrase is just for explanation purposes, and in the same way that you won’t want to show your password to anyone, you also won’t want to show your secret phrase to anyone and basically only use it if you ever want to restore your wallet.

I will of course not use this wallet that I am now creating ever again, because everyone now can see my secret phrase.

Of course each person who creates a wallet will get a unique phrase.

Once you have written down your phrase and secured it, you just need to click the blue Next button below the secret phrase to continue.

We are now on the Confirm your Secret Backup Phrase page, and on this page we will need to confirm our secret phrase by just matching the words in our secret phrase to the words on the screen (in order).

So, I will do it now.

Once done just click the blue Confirm button below all the phrases.

And that’s it. MetaMask shows us a Congratulations page, and below the Congratulations caption there are again tips on how to store your secret seed phrase safely.

As you can see below MetaMask will not be able to recover your seed phrase so it is extremely important not to lose it.

So, that’s it for this lesson, and I will see you in the lesson… goodbye.

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