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Node key: 7mK2p...base64...=
```
-**Copy that key.** In your browser, on meshbay.org: **Settings → Link Node**,
-paste it, submit.
+**Copy that key.** In your browser, on meshbay.org: **Profile → Link Node**,
+paste it, submit. It is on the Profile page, not Settings — next to your
+passphrase and recovery phrase, which is where everything tied to your identity
+rather than to this browser lives.
This is what lets the hub introduce your members to this machine. It is a
public key; it identifies the node and unlocks nothing.
+If you lose it, `meshbay-node status` prints it again at any time. Those are the
+two places it can be read — that command, and **Node → Overview** in the desktop
+client. A browser cannot reach the node's own control API, so it cannot show you
+the key; pasting it here once is what a browser-only operator does instead.
+
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## Step 5 — Start the node