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there are other ways to get the private key hehe i think.. look at eos website

hmm ok I'l take another look

they give Advanced Participation
and this is the details:
Register Your Public Key
At any time a user can map their Ethereum address to a public key in one of the following formats:

  1. EOS Public Keys - EOS4yfYEjUodfs.......DfavaddbvD
  2. Steem Public Keys - STM4yfYEjUoey4.......UaSt2Sx9W4
  3. BitShares Public Keys - BTS5WaszCsqVN9.......Wz47B3wUqa
    Command Line Usage
    It is assumed that you have an Ethereum blockchain client installed. If you don't have one, Parity is recommended.
    Getting set up
    You will need the Nix Package Manager to work with the EOS contracts from the command line. These instructions will install it, configure it, and then install a CLI ethereum helper called seth

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
$ nix-channel --add https://nix.dapphub.com/pkgs/dapphub
$ nix-channel --update
$ nix-env -i seth
Commands

Getting Tokens:
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I've had another look and still unsure what I need to do about that public key. I will be using metamask

i guess.. look...

Great stuff thank you. Yeah will give it a go tonight

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Are you going to get some?

he uses mac..