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RE: HF20 Update: Restoring Continuity

in #steem6 years ago

I don't know if I'm the only one but since the HF20 I have been trying to power up my liquid steem and it is not letting me. It says invalid owner key but I know I have the right key as I have used it before several times and I am the only person with access to this information and sign in with my posting key so nobody should be able to change it without my knowledge. Is it a bug that has been reported? should I wait it out and see? I didn't see this problem on your list of issues/patches.

Glad to see some of the current RC issues will be resolved soon especially for the plankton level.

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Just to clarify but you note that you sign in with your posting key. You are using either your active or your master private key in order to power up under wallet right? You cant power up using only your posting key.

I use my master key to power up and it has worked several time in the past so I know I have the proper one. I only use the posting for daily activities.

It's definitely a bug , I finally got it to work now that I said something about it, go figure but it took me half a dozen tries in a row before it went thru and stopped giving me the error message.

It is safer to use your active key for transactions, your master key should be exposed as little as possible because it can be used to change all your keys.

Please NEVER use your master key for anything except to recover your account in the event it is hacked. Only use the active key for operations that require more than the posting key.

Be safe with your account.

Ok I didn't know that I could use the active key, I will do that in the future then. Thanks for the tip.