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Re: When will the account recovery problem be solved?
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bitmover
on 22/06/2018, 16:46:17 UTC
It's been years since we've had people in endless queues waiting to get a message back from either Cyrus or theymos, and none of them answering for some reason, even after sufficient cryptographic proof was presented (typically, a signed bitcoin address).

Here is what I don't understand.... Theymos is intelligent when it comes to programming.  He could easily create a type of account that had limited moderator abilities - specifically  the security rights to unlock an account.  A trusted user (like me) could spend some time to review signed messages and restore accounts, reducing workload.

I guess he just does not prioritize account recovery.  I understand his reasoning, since losing your account is, in most cases, your fault.  

Unfortunate events can happen to everyone. Even satoshi lost his gmx account and said account got eventually hacked and exploited. It can happen to anyone. Keeping email accounts and forum passes online it's not the same as keeping your private keys offline (which never touch the internet). As soon as something touches the internet there is a % of disaster out of your reach, like a security breach on the email provider's side and so on.


I agree. Everyone can be hacked. Maybe not everyone ,but most of people.  not everyone here is a cyber security expert, there is a lot of diversification here in this forum.

 people have different life styles. Some people use multiple devices (if someone travels a lot), or they can trust some third party password manager that got hacked... There are many things out of our control, and one security solution that works for one person may not work for another as they have different habits