First of all Id like to say hi to everyone who still remembers me, Ive been here all this time watching everything, mainly playing splinterlands but still I was here every day as a reader and many other hive games engager.
While I used to blog here a lot 4 to 8 years ago I stopped with that for lots of reasons at the time, hell I don't even remember the reasons, but unfortunately I stopped and never continued. This will be a short return just to tell you what happened to me and its a very sad story.
My SSD drive with my only backup died and unfortunately not even disk recovery can help me recover private keys saved there, I only have a posting key I saved on different machine which is why I was able to write this.
This is a warning to backup your goddamn Hive Private Keys and to set your recovery to hive.recovery. I haven't done all that even though I had many chances to do so and now Im left with only posting key for all eternity, which means all my Hive and Splinterlands assets are forever locked on hive blokchain unable to be transferred or sold.
This account used to be worth more than 150k $ 4 years ago, I sold crumbs back then, now its worth 8k with Hive and Splinterlands cards, land and SPS, Zing, Crownrend, sim, lots of Hive engine tokens. Well its not worth anything now, its almost fucking unfair that nothing can be done with this. Imagine losing years of work in an instant. Im just saying there needs to be more options for recovery. This will happen again to someone who is worth even more in $value.
Any idea what to do with this account now? Its just web2 now. I can play splinterlands just for fun now lol, glint can still be spent to earn even more glint.
I can stay here and post memes, but I can do that on every other platform. I can start from scratch but that would be way too depressing. Every suggestion is welcome, jokes too, I can use a laugh right now.
Also no need to upvote this because my account is now a new @null.
You could open a second account and set it as the beneficiary of your rewards.
You need active key for that too.
F.
That blows man. I’ve reached out a couple of people hoping they have a better solution then what I can come up with. It’s not sounding promising.
Can you reach out to me on your X (Twitter) account? As I want to make sure this is not a compromised posting key that is posting.
Hey enjar good to see you, you are as active as ever here and tnx for wanting to help. Unfortunately I havent been on twitter for many years too way before it changed to x. Everything on my main pc is gone. I had to do fresh windows install on other ssd drive. It is me unfortunately, beeing in my skin is hard these days. We used to hang in Hive ace splinterlands guild that used to be called steem ace and overall guild did badly.
What are possible solutions? Im totaly out of ideas. My best chance was disk recovery, I even reached data recovery firm and there is 1-5% chance to recover the pdf with keys because of disk trim that was probably turned on.
Double check all your devices. Did you ever use Keychain on a cellphone that still has it installed?
Check any auto back up to cloud service you have either used or came with any device/OS that had your keys on it. Some in the past have discovered there keys were being stored on a cloud service without even realizing it.
Do you still have the device you were using back in the day? Check to see if it’s still logged into anywhere with the active key. Steem had quite a few forks back then and everyone use to go raiding/farming for a little extra cash. Some sites have a “reveal private keys” and never had anything like a Keychain to use.
Think back to how you originally created your Steem account. Where you sent keys via Email? If so go check to see if that email is still around or if there is a way to request your email data going back 10 years from that provider.
As far as Splinterlands. What other blockchains did you connect to your account? I know at some point they added in ways to further lock down your assets. Maybe you have some kind of access still on another chain to move/delegate to another account.
Yes I have heychain installed on my phone, I only have posting key there also just like on laptop, I dont know why I even installed it on the phone without active key.
Cloud is a slim chance, I always turned cloud off unfortunately. The rest is way too long ago to remember, I can try to find old emails but there is also a slim chance to find anything meaningful.
I connected eth wallet to splinterlands for runi, and bnb for sps, to even communicate back I need active key.
I need to keep on trying to find something but thats the thing I rarely ever used active key on other places precisely just for safety, that will probably cost me in the end.
I tried everything. No luck
Dang that sucks. They were long shots. I was hoping you'd get lucky.
It is a hard pill to swallow to lose all this but still be here typing this on the same account, its like a twilight zone episode or black mirror. This represents way more than just crypto to me. It was a daily go to, now it is all gone.. You know I still click on Splinterlands and collect land gatherings but whats the point, 150k sps for nothing.
If anything else comes to mind pls let me know, maybe some dev can dev it to safety somehow one day.