It should be possible to recover @ironshield's account even if his recovery account is not available. The #1 witness has the ability to act as the recovery account for anyone. So it would be possible to ask the #1 witness to do the account recovery.
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No. Not for anyone, just for those who have this field empty (i.e. mined accounts).
My account was mined and I was #1 for quite a while.
libraries/protocol/include/hive/protocol/hive_operations.hpp:* On account creation the recovery account is set either to the creator of * the account (The account that pays the creation fee and is a signer on the transaction) * or to the empty string if the account was mined. An account with no recovery * has the top voted witness as a recovery account, at the time the recover * request is created. Note: This does mean the effective recovery account * of an account with no listed recovery account can change at any time as * witness vote weights. The top voted witness is explicitly the most trusted * witness according to stake.Thanks for the clarification! I was under the impression that the #1 could act as the recovery account for anyone. I looked at the code and I now understand that it doesn't work the way I thought.
This shows the importance of making sure to keep your recovery account up to date.
I could not find anything on the code that says that is possible...
Yeah. You're right. I had a misconception. The #1 can only recover accounts that don't have a recovery account set, as would be the case if an account was mined.
Yep, confirmed later with the rest of the people and gtg pointed code.
Who is #1 witness, I'll gladly speak with him. @saboin
Thank you, I don't want to spam him with dm's and such, but if he is able to help in any way the situation is extremely time sensitive.
Unfortunately, nothing I can do. Read this comment from @gtg
How? that's new to me...
@arcange is that true?
Unfortunately, nothing I can do. Read this comment
Appreciate the tag!