RE: Musing Posts

[awesomianist]

Tough luck.. The steem account "recovery" process very very limited. Unless you have a prior account key, your new account is forever lost. The original recovery process is not meant for someone forgetting his account but rather have his account hacked. Say someone hacked your account and changed the password, this is where the Recovery process comes in.

I experienced the something similar to you some time ago. Luckily the account was delegated so I can pull back the delegation.

Remember that a Steem Address is as secure as Bitcoin Address. Its not as easy as "recover my account via email" and all that. Once your key is lost, your key is lost. Sorry brother.

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[nathen007]

cheers, but I created myself it via steemconnect, i sent 10steem and on steemd, it says I am the account recovery...it was a new way to open accounts but thanks for your input :-)

[awesomianist]

Yea same with me, created it with the steemconnect tool.

"it says I am the account [trustee]".
True, but that is only relevant if the trustor gets hacked. In which the account recovery works by you requesting the account recovery and the trustor account recovers the account with its old password (as the hacker changed the password). Nothing you can do if you don't have the password yourself..

Took me sometime to wrap around the idea too and I was equally sad that I've locked myself out of an account with a name that means something to me.

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