The trustee for stolen account recovery should always be a person to whom you can "prove" you are the real account owner. If you create an account via Steemit, they collect info to know who you are so that you can prove ownership later. If you create an account through BlockTrades while logged into your BlockTrades account, you can prove you are the account owner by showing you control the email account associated with your BlockTrades account. So the recovery agent is generally set to be whoever creates the account for you, since account creation often requires collecting info that can be later be used for proof-of-identity.
Note: if you buy a Steem account from BlockTrades when you are not logged into your BlockTrades account, then we don't collect proof-of-identity, and we can't help with stolen account recovery in such cases.
Thanks @blocktrades. That makes sense.
I'm interested in creating an account for my pastor.
Under Steem menu at the top of page, you should see option to "Create Steem Account". I recommend you first create an account on BlockTrades and login, so that the account can benefit from stolen account recovery feature, for example.
Just a thought: shouldn’t it be a precaution measure to not allow people to create a SteemIt account if they’re not logged into their Blocktrades account?
To be honest, I sometimes forget to check if I’m logged in when using the Blocktrades services...
Fortunately I was during the creation of my account or I would have lost a lot...
We're adding an additional warning about the recovery issue on the account creation page for cases where the user isn't logged in. We'll still allow it, but the warning will make sure the customer knows the risk of not logging into their BlockTrades account first.
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