RE: Changing My Recovering Account
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Nice one, glad you acted on this :D
I lost access to @barge when changing keys and the nodes were playing up and I was careless. Fortunately I had changed my recovery account 9 minutes before the keys. I therefore had a 9-min window after 30 days in which to recover......a long tense wait, but it happened :D
I also blogged about the importance of changing the recovery account.
Hive Account Security: Take These Two Steps And Never Ever Lose Access
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wow 9 minutes... damn lucky!!
i am so glad i did it, i had completely forgot it! If i had read your post 5 days ago or the older one i would definitely had done that immediately! I gave the second one a small upvote as i couldn't do it at the older (something must be done about the older posts)!
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As you saw I was greatly helped by Hive Witness @deathwing........whole thing felt a bit like James Bond, except it wasn't someone else being rescued :D
Many thanks for the upvote and the follow 🙏
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The odd thing is that there is no way to set a new recovery account on Hive. That means you have to trust Peakd with your higher-level keys, you can't even log in with your posting key, they demand the active key.
I have trust issues as well.
I changed my old Steemit and Hive keys months ago, so they are no longer the same.
If anyone knows of a way to set a new recovery account on Hive, please share. I have an alt account all ready for it.
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In fact to change the recovery account you will need your Owner key, an even higher level than Active! PeakD do not, AFAIK, save your keys anywhere - it is just their frontend being used to interact with the Hive blockchain. I have no issue using it for this purpose.
Another tool for changing recovery account is:
https://reazuliqbal.com/HiveAccountRecovery/
To be completely independent of anyone else's code, you would need to run your own script using Python/Beem. It's something I ended up doing in order to recover my account, but it requires experience (I had help).
You could use hivesigner and do it yourself as per this post: https://peakd.com/hive/@deathwing/psa-change-your-recovery-account-now
Read your account of losing 25BTC in 2010/11 and a few other posts on your blog...sounds like you have recovered well :D
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