Hi!

I had an account at bitcointalk for several years (scotjam). I had become a somewhat infrequent user over the past few years, but was still receiving the odd PM and logging in now and then.

Then at some point in the last few months my account seems to have gotten banned, presumably from inactivity because I was barely using it. The user still exists on the site but I'm not able to log in and it asks me to email an address to get it unlocked.

I've sent a quick email to that address a couple of days ago, but no reply yet.

Is it possible to unlock my old account? I still know my login details, have access to the email address I used to set it up, and probably even still have access to sign messages using the private keys corresponding to bitcoin addresses I used with the account in question to receive payments for things etc.

I do want to get back involved because during my hiatus I've created something that I think will be useful to the community, but it is likely to be *more* useful if people know it is coming from the same account that I did all my other trustworthy transactions from over the years if at all possible. If not I will have to release it as a newbie (which would no doubt be a little more hair-raising for everyone, especially if I can't even be sure myself why my account has been banned...).

Maybe the answer is that the email address that I sent the message to will get back to me and I just need to wait for some period of time before that happens (which is fine of course) but I would just like some reassurance that this will be looked at eventually. Otherwise I may as well start the gradual process of establishing this second account... I'm not keen to invest time in that though if it's just a matter of a short time for me to regain access to my original account.

Many thanks for reading - I know you're all busy on the forums here!

scotjam